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English 
As  She  is    Taught, 


"  A    DARLING  literary  curiosity The  collection  is 

■**■  made  by  a  teacher  ....  and  all  the  examples  in  it  are 
genuine  ;  none  of  them  have  been  tampered  with,  or  doctored 
in  any  way." 

— Mark  Twain,  in  the  Century  for  April,  1887 


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'       GENUINE  ANSWERS  TO  EXAMINATION  QUESTIONS 
IN  OUR  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 


COLLECTED    BY 

CAROLINE  B.  Le  ROW. 


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739  &  741  Broadway,  New  York. 


ia)UCATIOK  LIBS. 

Copyright, 
1887, 
By  O.  M.  DUNHAM 


Pr.M  W.  L.  Mershon  &  Co., 
Rah  way,  N.  J, 


English  as  She  is  Taught. 


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LIBRARY     ' 

V 


Dr.  Blimber's  establishment  was  a  great  hot- 
house in  which  there  was  a  forcing  apparatus 
incessamtly  at  work.  All  the  boys  blew  before 
their  time.  Mental  green  peas  were  produced 
at  Christmas  and  intellectual  asparagus  all  the 
year  round.  Mathematical  gooseberries  (very 
sour  ones)  were  common  at  untimely  seasons 
and  from  mere  sprouts  of  bushes  under 
Dr.  Blimber's  cultivation.  Every  description 
of  Greek  and  Latin  vegetable  was  got  off 
the  dryest  twigs  of  boys  under  the  frostiest 
circumstances.  Nature  was  of  no  consequence 
at  all.     No  matter   what  a  ypung   gentleman 

938 


vi  Eiiglish  as  She  is  Taught. 

was  intended  to  bear  Dr.  Blimber  made 
him  bear  to  pattern.  But  the  system  of 
forcing  was  attended  with  its  usual  disadvan- 
tages. There  was  not  the  right  taste  about 
the  premature  productions  and  they  didn't 
keep  well.  When  poor  Paul  had  spelt  out  No. 
2  he  found  he  had  no  idea  of  No.  i,  fragments 
whereof  afterwards  obtruded  themselves  into 
No.  3  which  slided  into  No.  4  which  grafted 
itself  on  to  No.  2 ;  so  that  whether  twenty 
Romuluses  made  a  Remus,  or  a  verb  always 
agreed  with  an  ancient  Briton,  or  three  times 
four  was  Taurus  a  bull,  were  open  questions 
with  him.  But  however  high  and  false  the 
temperature  at  which  Dr.  Blimber  kept  his  hot- 
house, the  owners  of  the  plants  were  always 
ready  to  lend  a  helping  hand  at  the  bellows 
and  to  stir  the  fire. 

Dombey  and  So?i. — Charles  Dickens. 


English  as  She  is  Taught. 


Vll 


P r  efa c e . 

vS  tlic  greatest  compliment  that  could 
be  paid  a  ivriter  would  be  tJie  assiiinp- 
tion  that  the  material  contained  in 
this  little  volume  was  the  product  of  that 
writer  s  ingenuity  or  imagination,  it  seems 
needless  for  the  compiler  to  state  that  every  line 
is  just  what  it  purports  to  be, — bona  fide  answers 
to  questions  asked  in  the  p^iblic  schools. 

Mark    Tivain,    zvith   his  inimitable  drollery. 


viii  ■  English  as  She  is  Taught. 

comments  in  the  CENTURY  MAGAZINE /<?r  April, 
1887,  upon  English  as  She  is  Taught. 
Even  this  master  of  English  humor  acknowledges 
his  inability  to  comprehend  how  such  success  in 
the  literature  of  fun  could  be  attained,  not  only 
without  effort  or  intention,  but  through  heroic 
struggles  to  set  forth  hard  facts  a7id  sober 
statistics. 


English  as  She  is  Taught. 


IX 


Con 

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ent  s . 

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t 

^ 

PAG«. 

I. 

Etymological, 

. 

I 

II. 

Grammatical, 

. 

H 

III. 

Mathematical, 

. 

.       i8 

IV. 

Geographical, 

31 

V. 

Original, 

. 

.         30 

VI. 

Analytical, 

. 

43 

VII. 
VIII. 

Historical, 
Intellectual. 

• 

53 
67 

IX. 

Philosophical, 

.      89 

X. 

Physiological, 

. 

93 

XI. 

Astronomical, 

.     100 

XII. 

Political,    . 

. 

103 

XIII. 

Musical,    . 

. 

.     105 

XIV. 

Oratorical, 

. 

106 

XV. 

Metaphysical, 

. 

.     108 

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Rnglish  as  She  is  Taught, 


I. 


Etymological. 


Aborigines — a  system  of  mountains. 
Aboriginal — what  was  original  before. 
Aboriginate — to  settle  down  in  a  place. 
Alias — a  good  man  in  the  Bible. 
Alienate — to  put  together. 

to  make  a  citizen  of. 

to  make  a  foreigner. 

to   live    in    another  country  except 
your  own. 


English  as  She  is   Taught. 


Amenable — any  thing  that  is  mean. 
Ammonia — the  food  of  the  gods. 
Animosity — a  sudden  surprise. 

kindness. 

thoughtfullness. 

an  emblem  or  sign. 

great  liveliness. 
Aristocracy — to  be  stuck  up. 
Armistice — one  who  takes  part  in  battle. 
Asphyxia — a  grumbling  fussy  temper. 
Assiduity — state  of  being  an  acid. 
Audible — worthy  of  applause. 
Auriferous — giving  light  from  yourself. 

pertaining  to  an  orifice. 

Beneficence — a  state  of  insanity. 
Burglarize — to  make  burglars. 

Capillary — a  little  caterpiller. 
Cassowary — a  kind  of  dromedary. 
Centaur — a  three  legged  animal. 
Conjugate — to  all  wrinkle  up. 


English  as  She  is   Taught. 


Conservative — a  person  interested  in  politics 
who  does  not  like  Mr.  Glad- 
stone. 

Corniferous — rocks  in  which  fossil  corn  is 
found. 

Crosier — a  staff  carried  by  the  Deity. 

Culinary — cunning  or  cute. 

Delineate — to  deface. 

to  make  lean. 
Demagogue — a    vessel    containing    beer    and 
other  liquids. 

Egregious — the  art  of  learning, 
feeding  on  flocks. 
a  good  many  sheep  together. 
Emissary — a  foreign  missionary. 
Emolument — a  softening. 
a  structure, 
a  great  increase, 
a  headstone  to  a  grave. 
Epicac — a  man  who  likes  a  good  dinner 


Ejiglish  as  She  is   Taught. 


Equanimity — evenness  of  time, 
carefullness. 
being  equal  all  round. 
Equestrian — an  equal. 

a  competetor. 
one  who  asks  questions, 
one  who  walks  on  foot. 
Erudition — act  of  wiping  out. 

state  of  being  erude. 
Espionage — a  kind  of  cabbage. 
Eucharist — one  who  plays  euchre. 
Exhilarate — pertaining  to  happiness. 

Franchise — any  thing  belonging  to  the  French. 
Freebooter — a  man  three  feet  high. 

Idolater — a  very  idol  person. 

Ignition — the  art  of  not  noticing. 

Impetuosity — to  get  into  a  pet. 

Implacable — not  able  to  be  placed. 

Ingratiating — grating  up  the  ear. 

Interloper — one  who  runs  away  to  get  married. 


English  as  She  is   Taught. 


Irrigate — to  disturb. 

to  turbulate. 

to  make  fun  of. 

to  emit  sparks. 

to  contest  in  law. 

to  ask  in  return. 

to  dispense  with  justice. 

Knickerbocker — something  to  ring  with. 

Matins — something  to  wear  on  the  feet. 
Medieval — a    wicked     man     who     has     been 

tempted. 
Mediocrity — the  science  of  the  Medes. 
Mendacious — what  can  be  mended. 
Mercenary — relating  to  money  matters. 

one  who  feels  for  another. 

hostile  to  life. 

one  living  on  charity. 

one  who  suffers. 

pertaining  to  the  eye. 

relating  to  habits. 

strong,  bold,  brave. 


English  as  She  is  Taught. 


Mercenary — one  who  delivers  a  message. 

one  who  sets  on  fire  with  hostile    \ 
intent. 

Miscellaneous — all  mixed  up.  ] 

Munificence — waste.  i 

thanksgiving.  j 

brightness.  i 

great  wealth.  j 

a  tragedy.  j 

a  beautiful  city.  \ 

Non-conformist — a  decenter  of  ancient  times.      • 

Ominous — power  to  be  all  present.  ; 

power  to  eat  all  things.  ' 

Parasite — a  sort  of  bird.  \ 

one  who  speaks  well.  j 

an  example.  j 

a  kind  of  umbrella.  | 

the  murder  of  an  infant. 

Party-colored — a  fine  kind  of  a  dress  to  wear  j 
to  a  ball. 

Pennyroyal — relating  to  money. 


JEnglish  as  She  is   Taught. 


Perennial — every  seven  years. 
Plagarist — a  writer  of  plays. 
Plagarism — fire  worship. 
Prism — a  prim  precise  person. 
Publican — a   man   who    does    his    prayers    in 
public. 

Quarternions — a  bird  with  a  flat  beak  and  no 
bill  living  in  New  Zealand. 

the  name  given  to  a  style  of 
art  practiced  by  the  Phoeni- 
cians. 

a  religious  convention  held 
every  hundred  years. 

Republican — a  sinner  mentioned  in  the  Bible. 
Reticence — tardy  ness. 

retirement. 

a  review. 

something  of  the  eye. 

great  slowness. 

Satiate — to  make  tasty. 

Sibilant — the  state  of  being  idiotic. 


8  English  as  She  is   Taught.  J 

i 
Starveling — a    small    child  who  doesunt  have       i 

enough  to  eat. 
Subtlety — gentley.  '. 

profanity.  ,        ', 

brittleness. 

softness. 

vagueness. 

easily  coaxed. 

light  and  airy.  \ 

is  sprightness.  - 

a  settlement.  • 

great  doubtfullness. 

stepping  through  easily.  \ 

state  of  being  easy  broken.  ■ 

Technology — according  to  the  text.  \ 

a  plagarism  nearly  obsolete, 
something  which  teaches  you  to      - 
be  very  tecknical  in  your  re- 
marks. 

Tenacious — ten  acres  of  land. 

'I 

Vacillating — ticking  like  a  pendulum.  i 


English  as  SJie  is   Taught. 


Vermicular — the  intestines  of  a  worm. 

She  is  related  to  him  by  animosity. 

A  great  many  people  alienate  from  their  coun- 
try to  this. 

The  ring  is  quite  an  auriferous  article. 

He  is  a  very  auspicious  boy. 

She  dresses  very  auspicious. 

The  belligerent  powers  receive  a  salary. 

We  call  him  a  charger  because  he  charges  so 
much. 

Chronology  is  the  science  of  the  brane. 

He  had  a  chronic  disease — something  the  mat- 
ter with  the  chrone. 

The  coercion  of  some  things  is  remarkable,  as 
bread  and  molasses. 

We  should  never  commiserate  a  person  even  if 
we  dislike  them. 

Her  hat  is  contigitons  because  she  wears  it  on 
one  side. 

The  girl  was  delineate  in  her  work. 

John  said  he  would  delineate  the  book. 

The  washwoman  dilated  t\\Q  clothes. 


lo  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

He  was  totally  dismasted  with  the  whole  per- 
formance. 

The  officer  is  to  be  tried  for  dissertation  of  his 
office. 

The  place  was  left  in  a  state  of  dissertation. 

He  dominated  or  ruled  the  paper. 

He  is  a  great  duplicate  because  so  very  deceitful. 

The  men  marched  out  in  an  egregious  proces- 
sion. 

He  preached  to  an  egregious  congregation. 

He  gave  a  correct  elimination  of  the  word. 

The  captain  eliminated  a  bullet  through  the 
man's  heart. 

He  stood  on  a  high  emissary. 

There  was  a  small  emolument  of  water  in  the 
vessel. 

He  was  exhilarated  to  a  better  place. 

We  should  endeavor  to  avoid  extremes — like 
those  of  wasps  and  bees. 

You  should  fascinate  the  vine  to  the  wall. 

I  have  a  gauzy  hen  at  home. 

He  treated  her  with  ignition  because  he  did 
not  notice  her. 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  ii 

The  marriage  was  illegible. 

They  tried  to  imbecile  the  animal. 

The  leopard  is  watching  his  sheep. 

I  liquidate  you  from  all  blame. 

John  liquidated  his  bread  with  milk. 

The  strawberry  crop  was  magnanimous. 

The  magnanimous  of  Milton  was  wonderful. 

He  has  a  very  mental  intellect. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  mediocrity. 

The  child  gave  a  mercenary  account  of  the 
accident. 

She  has  just  returned  from  the  inerceiiary. 

This  examination  makes  me  feel  very  nance- 
ous. 

The  stomach  contains  nausea. 

Her  fright  v^diS  palliateable  because  it  made  her 
pale. 

The  doctrine  that  like  can  be  cured  by  like  is 
called  panacea. 

You  will  see  how  pecuniary  he  is  when  I  tell 
you  he  is  going  to  marry  for  money. 

The  family  is  placed  under  pecuniary  circum- 
stances. 


12  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

He  was  pecuniary  or  tight  in  his  money  mat- 
ters. 

lAy  perennial  'i\x\\\<dw  is  due  to-day. 

The   QdiYth.  perennially  revolves  round  the  sun. 

He  enjoys  riding  on  a  philosopher. 

You  should  take  caution  and  ht  precarious. 

ThQ  propensity  of  this  room  is  very  small. 

She  was  very  quick  at  repertoire. 

A  great  many  persons  are  quite  resonant. 

The  naughty  boy  resources  his  mother. 

People  become  full  of  retisense  when  they  are 
silent. 

Minerals  crystallize  in  rhododendrons. 

You  need  not  try  to  satiate  my  pathway. 

She  seceded  the  velvet  to  her  dress. 

The  serfdom  at  Cony  Island  is  very  high. 

The  men  employed  by  the  Gas  Company  go 
round  and  speculate  the  meter. 

The  sjipercilions  girl  acted  with  vicissitude 
when  \.\\^  perennial  time  came. 

He  prayed  for  the  waters  to  subsidize. 

The  birds  subsidize  in  the  summer  for  the  most 
part  on  fruits. 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  13 

He  is  a  very  tacit  scholar  because  he  is  easily 

taught. 
He  temporized  \.\\Q.  zinc  nicely. 
We  ought  to  temporize  our  health. 
The  tenacious  girl  was  good  in  church. 
Herod  was  called  a  tetrarch  because  he  was  so 

fond  of  tea. 
There  are  a  good  many  donkeys  in  theological 

gardens. 
Some  of  the  best  fossils  are  found  in   theologi- 
cal cabinets. 
The  telescope  is  very  tra^isparent  because  you 

can  see  through  it. 
He  landed  safe  on  vice  versa. 
The  earth  makes  a  vicissitude  around  the  sun 

once  a  year. 
They  had  a  strawberry  vestibule. 
Zoology   is  interesting  to    those  who   like  the 

study  of  words. 


14 


English  as  She  is   Taught. 


II. 

Grammatical 


Capitals  begin  every  line  of  Deity. 
Capital  letters  begin  at  breviation. 
At  the  beginning  of  every  capital  letters  should 

be  used. 
Capital  is  used  at  beginning  of  parigraf. 
An  interrogatt  sentense   must  Begin   with   a 

Capitel  Letter. 
A  deceletive  sentense  ends  with  a  perod.     An 

intorogative    one  ends  with  an  intoroga- 

tion  point. 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  15 

Every  sentence  and  name  of  God  must  begin 
with  a  caterpillar. 

When  you  speak  of  yourself  you  should  begin 
it  with  a  capital  letter. 

When  they  are  going  to  say  some  prose  or 
poetry  before  they  say  the  poetry  or  prose 
they  must  put  a  semicolon  just  after  the 
introduction  of  the  prose  or  poetry. 

A  quotion  is  something  spoken  by  people. 

A  quotation  is  asking  a  question. 

An  Exclamation  Point  is  what  causes  supprise. 

Brackets  set  things  off  so  they  wont  have  any- 
thing to  do  with  the  sentence. 

Grammer  is  how  to  talk  good. 

Grammar  gives  us  the  languish. 

We  study  Grammer  to  get  the  senses. 

Grammer  is  to  tell  us  the  parts  of  speeth. 

A  common  noun  is  small  things. 

A  proper  noun  is  peoples  names. 

A  pronoun  is  a  word  when  we  cant  get  a  noun. 

A  pronoun  is  a  word  which  is  just  as  good  as  a 
noun. 

The  two  kinds  of  Pronouns  is  I  and  O. 


1 6  English  as  She  is   Taught. 


The  plural  is  formed  by  turning  book  into 
books. 

Person  in  Grammer  tells  us  whether  he  is  a 
man  or  a  woman.  It  is  always  an  animal 
or  something  that  isent  alive. 

Gender  is  the  distinguishing  nouns  without  re- 
gard to  sex. 

A  verb  is  something  to  eat. 

An  intransitiv  verb  expresses  an  act  not  done 
to  another  as  James  did  not  strike  John. 

The  Moods  in  English  Gram,  are  the  Indica- 
tive,  Potential,  Subjugated,   and   Infinitif. 

The  optative  mood  is  a  mood  in  a  verb  when 
any  body  knows  you  have  done  any  thing. 

The  sign  if  shows  the  potative  mood. 

Adverbs  should  always  be  used  as  adjectives 
and  adjectives  as  adverbs. 

The  horses  xmw  fastly.     This  is  an  adverb. 

The  comparative  degree  expresses  that  one 
thing  is  up  higher  than  another  and  the 
Supulative  is  the  highest  of  all. 

A  dependent  sentence  is  one  that  hangs  from 
its  clause. 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  17 

All  sentences  are  either  simple  or  confound. 
To  conjugate  a  sentence  is  to  tell  all  the  things 

that  it  means. 
The  word  governed  by  another  word   is  called 

its  regiment. 
Rhythm  is  a  horse  trotting  on  a  road. 
Rhyme  makes  two  words  sound  just  alike. 
A  figure  means  something  different  from  what 

it  says. 
Can  in  poetry  is  sometimes  used  for  cant. 
Prose  tells  things  that  are  true  right  along  just 

as  they  are  and  poetry  makes  it  up  as  you 

go  along. 


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III. 

Mathematical. 


Arithmetic  is  the  signs  of  numbers. 

A  factor  is  a  number  which  divided  by  another 

number  equals  the  number  of  parts. 
A  Prim  Facktor  is  a  Factor  that  stands   for  a 

Facter. 
The   sins   of    Division   are  a  short  horizontail 

line  between  two  doits  and  a   curve  line 

between  the  Deviser  and  Divident. 
The  sines    of   Division    will  be  like    the  quo- 

cient. 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  19 

Multiplication  is  the  process  of  takeing  one  or 

more  many  times  to  multiply  the  produck 

if  the  work  is  write. 
A  common  fraction  is  made  up  of  two  parts 

with  a  separation  between  them. 
A  vulgar  fraction   has   one   fraction  over  the 

line  and  the  other  under  it. 
The  Denomator  is  the  bottom  of  the  fraction. 

The  Numerator  tells  how  many  there  are 

in  it. 
A  Decimal  Fraction  is  one  with  a  point. 
A  straight  line   is  any   distance   between  two 

places. 
Parallel  lines  are  lines    that    can  never  meet 

until  they  run  together. 
A    Horace    uncle    line    is    a    line    that   isn't 

crooked. 
A  circle  is  a  round  straight  line  with  a  hole  in 

the  middle. 
A  hexameter  is  inscribed  in  a  circle. 
A  foursided  figure  is  a  trapezium  which  is  the 

general  name  for  a  kite. 
A  parallelogram  has  all  its  sides  parallel. 


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The  base   of  a  triangle   is  the  sum  of   its  two 

sides. 
Things  which  are  equal  to  each  other  are  equal 

to  anything  else. 
To  find  the  number  of  square  feet  in  a  room 

you  multiply  the  room  by  the  number  of 

the  feet.     The  product  is  the  result. 


English  as  She  is   Taught. 


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IV. 


Geographical. 


{American}) 

The  three    natural    divisions   of   America  are 

Europe,  Ashea  and  Africa. 
North  America  is  separated  by  Spain. 
The   countries    of  North    America  are    Brits- 

chish,     Washington,    Canada    Nina     and 

Mexica. 
America  is  divided  into  the  PassifTic  slope  and 

the  Mississippi  valey. 
America  consists   from  north  to   south   about 

500  miles. 
Amireca  is  in  the  torade  zone. 


22  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

The  climit  of  America  is  very  worm. 

The  climate  of  America  is  modrant — modern 

in  the  middle. 
The   principle   mountains  of  America  are  the 

Alagany   and  on    the   cost  range    on  the 

eastern  part  all. 
The  Rocking   Mountains   are  the   graitest  in 

America. 
The  great  Lakes  of  America  is  champagne. 
The  great  lakes  of  America   are   Siperior,  On- 

tarria  and  Hurryon,  Michigan. 
The  principal  mts.  of  America  are  lamb  beaf 

veal. 
The    rivers    of   America    are    ohio   Artie    an 

drandartic. 
The  United    States   is   quite  a  small   country 

compared  with   some  other  countrys,  but 

is  about  as  industrious. 
The  capital  of  the  United  States  is  Long  Island. 
One   of  the   leading  industries   of  the   United 

States   is  mollasses    book-covers  numbers 

gas  teaching  lumber  manufactures  paper- 
making  publishers  coal. 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  23 

The  chief  products  of  the  United  States  is 
troupil  freuts  an  tobacto.  The  climit  has 
2  sesons  a  rainey  and  a  dry. 

The  names  of  states  on  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  is 
United  States. 

The  five  seaports  of  the  U.  S.  are  Newfunlan 
and  Sanfrancisco. 

The  principal  seaports  is  cotton  wool  shoes. 

The  principal  cities  of  the  United  States  are 
Bath  Lynn  Lowell  Lawrence. 

The  principal  products  of  the  U.  S.  is  earth- 
quakes and  volcanoes. 

The  manufactured  products  of  the  United 
States  is  fish  and  agriculture  and   imports. 

The  principle  products  of  New  England  are 
dairying  shipbuilding  wine  coffee  tropic 
fruets  and  cloathes. 

The  exports  of  New  England  are  lumbering 
fishing  ice  cutting  wood  chopping. 

The  prinicpal  sports  of  New  England  are  cot- 
ten  tobaco  ice. 

The  principal  occupation  of  New  England  is 
shipping  goods. 


24  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Mineing  is  mostely  carried  on  in  new  Englyn. 
The  climit  of  New  English  is  hot  worm  and  coal. 
The  coaste   city's   of    New  England   are   New 

Haven  and  Seaport. 
The  coast  cities  of  New  England  are  Boston. 
The  Vermont  state  is  south  west  of  Mass. 
The  New  London  State  is  near  the  Meremack 

River. 
The  principal  mountain   range  in    England  is 

Kartardin. 
Providence  is  the  leading  commercial  city  of 

New   England   situated  on   the    Southern 

part  of  the  cost  of  Maine. 
New  York  is  bounded  by  Montreal. 
The   capital   of  New  York  is  New   Hamshire. 

Its  principle   cities  are   Portland   an  Sus- 

quehana. 
Philadelphia  is  the  capitol  of  New  York  and  it 

is  in  the  south  West  Part. 
Washenton   is  in   the    Northron  part  of  New 

York. 
New  York  was  once  called  the   Emperor  state 

because  it  once  had  a  Emperor. 


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Aduculung  and  Mineing  is  the  chief  industry 
of  New  York  State. 

The  Rocky  Mountains  are  on  the  western  side 
of  Philadelphia. 

The  Rocking  Mountain  is  east  of  Mass.  Algany 
east  of  Rocky  Sirranevada  east  of  Al- 
gany. 

The  Alaginnies  are  mountains  in  Phiia- 
delfia. 

The  Arondack  Mountains  are  north  of  Can- 
ada. 

The  White  Mountains  are  in  England. 

The  Yosemity  Valley  is  the  highest  mountain 
in  the  world. 

The  Mississippi  River  runs  soulth  and  empies 
into  Mexico. 

Mason  and  Dixon's  line  is  the  Equater. 

Cape  Hatteras  is  a  vast  body  of  water  sur- 
rounded by  land  and  flowing  into  the  Gulf 
of  Mexico. 

Canada  is  south  of  New  York. 

The  City  of  Canada  is  Columbia  in  the  westarn 
part  of  Columbia. 


26  English  as  She  is  Taught. 

Two    cities    in    Canada   are    andruscogin    and 

kenibek. 
Stock  rason  is  the  occupation  of  Canada. 
The  rapids  of  St.   Lorence  is   caused    by  the 

canoes  of  the  Indianes. 
British  America   is  overturned  by  queen  Vic- 

torier. 
Alasca   is  governed  by  the  Britished  America. 
The  productions  of  Central  America  is  fish. 
Vancoover  is    the  North  West  United  States. 
Cuba     and     Newfoundland    is    Southeast    of 

America. 
The  climate  of  Mexico  is  very  barren  being  hot 

or  cold. 
California  is  the  capitol  of  San  Francisco. 
The   occupation  of  Greenland  is  speering  the 

seel. 
The    oppacation    of    the     Greenland    whisky 

lemon  bannanars. 
The   occupation   of  the   people   of   Greenland 

seals  and  the  people  of  California  gathrin 

gold. 
The  people  of  Greenland  people  do  seal  fishing 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  27 

and  whailingof  Alaska  people  are  gathring 
furs  of  the  Indies  people  fishing  and 
shouting. 

{European}^ 

Charlemagne     and     Pepin    were    countries   of 

Austria. 
In  Austria  the  principal  occupation  is  gathring 

Austrich  feathers. 
France  is  parallel  to  America  on  a  line  running 

east  and  west. 
The  Bay  of  Biscuit  is  on  the  coast  of   France. 
The  principal  industries  of  Germany  are  manu- 
facturing, agriculture,  and  the  cultivation 

of  the  intellect. 
Germany  has  very  little  clubbable  land. 
Russia  in  the  time  of  Peter  the  Great  was  a 

very  cold  country  and  its  inhabitants  lived 

in  Siberia. 
Russia    is    very    cold    and    tyrannical.     Boany 

Airs  is  in  Russia. 
St.  Petersburg  is  in  the  Gulf  of  Finland. 
The  Baltic  Sea  is  between  Sweden  and  Norway. 


28  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Portugal  is  separated  from  Spain  by  the  Medi- 

teranian  Sea. 
Sicily  is  one  of  the  Sanwich  Islands. 
Constantinople    is    called    the    queen    of   the 

Adriattic. 
The  Persian  Gulf  is  the  eastern  part  of  Persia. 
The  Great   Desert  of  Sarah  was  formerly  dis- 
covered in  Africa. 
The  two  most  famous  volcanoes  of  Europe  are 

Sodom  and  Gomorrah. 
Terra  del  Fuego  means  Land  of  the  Furies. 
The  Straits  of   Magellan  separates  North  and 

South  America. 
Hindoostan    flows    through    the    Ganges   and 

empties  into  the  Mediterranean  Sea. 
No  northwest  passage  has  ever  been  discovered 

around  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope. 
One  of  the  chief  exports   of  England   is  live 

meat  which  grows  in  great  quantities. 
Ireland  is  called  the  Emigrant  Isle  because  it 

is  so  beautiful  and  green. 
Gibraltar  is  an  island  built  on  a  rock.      It  has 

15,000  inhabitants. 


E?iglish  as  She  is    Taught.  29 

The  Straight  of  Mabel  Manden  seperates  the 
Rock  of  Gibralter  from  the  ocean. 

The  width  of  the  different  zones  Europe  Hes  in 
depend  upon  the  surrounding  country. 

The  north  tempered  zone  is  the  best  one. 

The  frigide  zone  is  the  most  liottest. 

Latitude  is  a  thing  by  which  we  can  tell  where 
a  country  is  on  the  globe,  like  Africa. 

Latitude  are  supposed  lines  which  pass  hori- 
zontally around  the  globe  and  longitude 
are  supposed  lines  which  pass  perpendicu- 
larly in  the  same  way  from  one  circle  to 
another. 

The  imports  of  a  country  are  the  things  that 
are  paid  for.  The  exports  are  the  things 
that  are  not. 

Pine  apples  grow  on  pine  trees. 

Climate  lasts  all  the  time  and  weather  only  a 
few  days. 


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English  as  She  is  Taught. 


V. 

Original. 

I  was  in  Cony  island.  I  was  in  the  musium. 
I  saw  a  bear.  I  saw  a  gypsy.  I  saw  a  niger 
man. 

We  go  fishing  every  mourning.  We  get  a  big 
basket  full  and  do  other  lots  of  refresh- 
ing things. 

I  expect  to  go  to  the  country  this  summer 
with  my  mothers  and  farthers. 

I    have  had   a    lovely   time    the   last    three 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  31 

weaks.  I  chop  wood  and  bild  fires  and  go 
errents  and  have  got  two  fire  crackers  saved  up 
for  the  forth  of  July. 

I  write  a  few  Hnes  to  letter  you  know  I  am 
a  getin  on.  I  went  to  a  excurseon  yester- 
day and  I  went  in  barefoot  and  gethered 
shels. 

A  Bird  Story. 

The  little  spring  has  built  her  nest  in  the 
oke  tree.  Every  mourning  the  mother  bird 
gets  upearlyto  find  food  for  her  nesterling  sense 
the  April  came.  One  day  it  rained  and  the 
little  burds  sat  and  looked  at  the  rain  as  it 
flowed  beneath  their  feet. 

About  the  Birds, 

The  little  birds  are  in  there  houses  and  rain 
began  to  power  and  when  the  rain  began  to 
stop  the  little  flyed  out  and  the  little  birds  sat 
up  a  tree  of  a  bransh  and  then  they  churp  and 


32  E?iglish  as  She  is   Taught. 

some  birds  come  to  have  a  nice  time  when  the 
grass  is  green  as  green  pante. 

On  Man. 

Man  is  an  animal  that  stands  up.  He  is 
not  very  big  and  he  has  to  work  for  a  living. 

On  Fashion. 

Sensible  people  wear  sensible  fashions  and 
insensible  people  insensible  fashions. 

A  Rainy  Afternoon. 

It  rained  hard  so  I  could  not  go  owdoors,  so 
I  went  out  in  the  shed  and  sod  some  wood. 

On  the  Cow. 

The  cow  she  eats  the  grass.  Wen  she  eats 
enought  she  will  lie  down  in  the  shade.  She  is 
generally  chewing.  This  chewing  is  called 
cud.  The  sheep  has  no  upper  Teeth.  It 
there  for  belongs  to  the  Cow's  Family.    The  cry 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  33 

of  a  cow  is  called  Low.  Her  youn  of  a  Cow  is 
called  a  calf.  The  Cow  gives  us  milk.  Butter 
and  cheese  are  made  out  of  bread.  The  flesh  of 
the  Cow  is  called  beef  and  the  Calf  veil.  We 
make  from  their  skin  shoes.  The  name  of  the 
Cow  is  called  Soldt  lether.  The  name  of  the 
calf  is  called  calf-skin. 

0)1  LatigJiter. 

Laughter  is  something  I  know  everybody 
can  do.  Some  people  laugh  until  the  tears 
come  from  their  eyes  and  then  they  have  a 
crying  spell  and  then  when  that  is  over  they 
have  a  laughing  spell.  When  people  cry  it 
will  make  them  look  very  peculiar  so  most 
of  people  very  seldom  cry.  It  is  the  laughing 
they  generally  do. 

Oil  Occupation. 

I  think  if  I  should  become  a  shoe  manufac- 
turer I  should  succeed  as  it  is  a  very  profitable 
occupation  and  shoes  are  necessary  to  all  classes 


34  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

and   consequently  a  large  trade  is  a  general 
thing. 

On  Umbrellas. 

The  matereal  at  the  top  of  an  umbrella  is 
placed  on  a  skeleton  of  whales  which  meet  all 
together  in  one  place.  They  do  be  covered 
with  silk,  alpaca  and  Satan. 

On  Indians, 

Indians  go  out  naked  in  the  summer  an 
they  take  ahold  of  their  scalp  locks  and  cut  off 
the  other  side  of  their  heads.  They  wear  it  on 
.their  sides.  Indians  food  consists  of  corn  and 
food.  They  use  smoking  instead  of  tanning. 
They  paint  their  skind  in  the  color  of  animals. 

George   Washington. 

George  Washington  was  the  first  president 
of  the  United  States  born  in  Virginia  in  the 
year.     When  George  was  a  little  boy  he  would 


Engl  is  Ji  as  She  is   Taught.  35 


never  tell  a  lie.  Because  he  thought  it  was  not 
nice.  It  tis  not  nice  nether.  He  studied  all 
kinds  of  things  to  be  a  president. 

AbraJiani  Lincoln. 

Abraham  Lincoln  was  born  in  Wales  in  1599. 
His  father  was  a  wool-comer,  but  Abraham  did 
not  like  that  trade.  One  day  Abraham  was 
standing  on  the  railroad  and  a  man  by  the 
name  of  Guitue  came  behind  and  shot  him. 
Then  he  got  put  in  jail  for  it.  But  it  was  not 
nice  of  him  because  he  shot  him  on  the  rail- 
road. 

On  Reading. 

Reading  makes  us  intelligent  ;  and  learn 
about  things  we  would  otherwise  hear  nothing. 

It  is  pleasant  to  recapitulate  stories  to  per- 
sons who  probably  have  not  had  the  opportu- 
nity of  reading  themi  and  it  therefore  passes 
many  a  dreary  hour  away  and  ,makes  many  a 
person  renew  his  happiness  by  hoping  for  such 


^6  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

a   favorable    end    as   some    characters   as    are 
described  in  the  book. 

If  we  did  not  have  the  capacity  of  reading 
we  might  wait  all  our  lives  and  never  secure 
the  desired  information,  but  if  instead  of  wait- 
ing for  some  one  to  tell  us  we  take  the  book  or 
paper  or  whatever  it  might  happen  to  be  and 
read  it  for  ourselves  we  will  be  much  better 
satisfied  and  also  have  the  consolation  of  know- 
ing we  discovered  it  for  ourselves  and  did  not 
have  to  wait  for  other  people  to  come  and  fur- 
nish us  with  the  desired  information. 

In  reading  there  is  a  large  amount  of  knowl- 
edge attained  for  it  enlarged  the  mind  while 
reading  and  continues  until  we  pass  away. 

When  we  read  we  come  across  words  that 
when  we  hear  them  spoken  of  we  are  entirely 
ignorant  of  them. 

The   untutored    mind  is    often    surprisingly 


English  as  She  is   7\iiight. 


expanded  in  reading  for  only  a  short  while  a 
little  every  day.  Then  when  Ave  hear  certain 
subjects  spoken  of  w^e  do  not  w^onder  what  it 
all  means. 

Reading  the  talents  of  others  helps  us  to 
compose  something  that  may  help  us  in  future 
life.  Without  reading  we  should  not  know 
any  thing  about  our  forefathers  or  how  we  came 
to  be  civilized.  What  would  we  know  about 
religion  if  we  did  not  read  our  Bible  and  find 
out  how  religion  originated  ? 

On  Girls. 

Girls  are  very  stuckup  and  dignefied  in  their 
maner  and  behaveyour.  They  think  more  of 
dress  than  any  thing  and  like  to  play  with  dowls 
and  rags.  They  cry  if  they  see  a  cow  in  afar 
distance  and  are  afraid  of  guns.  They  stay  at 
ho;ne  all  the  time  and  go  to  Church  every 
Sunday.  They  are  al-ways  sick.  They  are 
al-ways  funy  and   making  fun  of  boys  hands 


38  English  as  She  is  Taught. 

and  they  say  how  dirty.  They  cant  play  mar- 
bels.  I  pity  them  poor  things.  They  make 
fun  of  boys  and  then  turn  round  and  love  them. 
I  dont  beleave  they  ever  kiled  a  cat  or  any 
thing.  They  look  out  every  nite  and  say  oh 
ant  the  moon  lovely.  Thir  is  one  thing  I  have 
not  told  and  that  is  they  always  now  their  les- 
sons bettern  boys. 

On   Timidity  of  Woiiien. 

Timidity  is  a  disease  very  prevelent  among 
our  American  women.  It  is  thought  by  them 
to  be  an  ornament  to  their  charms. 

How  many  young  women  faint  by  the  sud- 
den appearance  of  a  rat  from  its  hideing  place. 
Oh  !  they  do  declare  it's  impossible  to  live 
where  these  dreadful  creatures  make  their 
homes  they  ask  Ma  cant  she  and  wont  she 
please  to  try  to  secure  some  remedy  so  they 
can  be  destroyed.  You  will  see  the  young 
ladies  leap  up  over  stones  and  steps  of  great 
height  so  as  to  escape  the  barks  of  the  dog,  it 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  39 


they  are  walking  with  a  friend  of  the  male  kind 
they  will  cling  to  the  masculine  arm  and 
beseach  him  to  walk  so  that  she  might  loose 
sight  of  that  horrible  creature  known  as  a 
dog. 

I  do  think  their  cases  of  timidity  that  cannot 
be  governed  such  as  cases  of  intemperance 
fighting  and  death.  We  dont  want  to  see  any 
man  come  along  the  street  destitute  of  reason- 
ing and  come  reeling  suddenly  by  you.  Also 
the  expectation  of  death  when  we  see  a 
loved  sister  going  away  from  a  cherished 
circle. 

It  cannot  be  endured,  but  I  have  no  objec- 
tions for  these  cases  but  the  preceding  ones  are 
ridiculous  and  I  beseach  you  to  reject  it  remem- 
bering you  shall  have  to  undergo  greater  trials 
than  those  related. 

On  Poverty. 

How  many  persons  possess  it  !  They  are 
persons  whose  poverty  cannot  be  endured  they 


40  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

had  enjoyed  preceding  years  in  wealth  and  by 
some  mishap  in  the  family  they  became  poor 
and  how  can  they  endeavor  to  forget  that  time 
when  their  happiness  could  not  be  ex- 
pressed but  now  their  troubles  shall  be  dis- 
covered. 

Poverty  is  a  case  that  cannot  be  hidden  it 
must  be  let  known  so  that  the  possessors  may 
obtain  condolence  in  some  way.  Places  for 
poor  persons  are  not  of  much  importance 
for  the  care  of  them  is  not  worth  mention- 
ing. 

Some  poor  persons  with  a  great  deal  of  pov- 
erty would  rather  walk  from  house  to  house  in 
search  of  some  nourishment  than  inhabit  those 
institutions  but  what  a  number  of  times  they 
are  driven  from  the  door  with  the  contemptu- 
ousness  of  the  rich  how  many  slang  words  are 
said  to  them. 

If  our  comfortable  friends  should  remember 
those  persons  casting  away  food  raiment  and 
apparel  they  would  be  less  cases  of  poverty 
and  when  sickness  overtakes  such  persons  lend 


Etiglish  as  She  is   Taught.  41 

a  helping  hand   their   consciences  would    less 
smite  them. 

On  Politeness. 

Politeness  is  to  say  and  do  the  kindest  way. 
I  think  it  is  easier  for  girls  to  be  polite  than  for 
boys,  but  I  am  not  sure  as  I  have  never  been  a 
girl.  Politeness  is  used  in  all  parts  of  the 
United  States. 

On  the  Play  of  Hamlet, 

Hamlet  was  a  young  man  very  nervous. 
He  was  always  dressed  in  black  because  his 
uncle  had  killed  his  father  by  shooting  him  in 
his  ear.  He  could  not  go  to  the  theatre 
because  his  father  was  dead  so  he  had  the  actors 
come  to  his  house  and  play  in  the  front  parlor 
and  he  learned  them  to  say  the  words  because 
he  thought  he  knew  best  how  to  say  them. 
And  then  he  thought  he'd  kill  the  king  but  he 
didn't.  Hamlet  liked  Ophelia.  He  thought 
she  was  a  very  nice  girl  but  he  didn't  marry  her 


42  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

because  she  was  going  to  be  a  nunnery.  Ham- 
let went  to  England  but  he  did  not  like  it  very 
much  so  he  came  home.  Then  he  jumped 
into  Ophelia's  grave  and  fought  a  duel  with 
her  brother.     Then  he  died. 

Hamlet  was  exceedingly  sensitiveness.  He 
denunciated  his  mother  because  she  entered 
the  matrimonial  condition  and  showed  her 
two  photographs  which  he  said  one  was  Hes- 
perus and  one  a  satire.  He  made  her  experi- 
ence great  regret.  He  was  engaged  to  Orphelia 
but  had  to  neglect  her  as  he  was  obliged  to 
give  his  attentions  to  revenging  his  father's 
death.  His  uncle  was  the  murderer  of  his 
father,  Hamlet's  father.  He  had  a  very  mourn- 
ful existence  and  was  a  great  philosopher. 


English  as  She  is   Taught. 


43 


VI. 


Analytical. 


A  balance  of  power " — making  the  poker 
stand  up  straight  in  your  hand. 

Weeping  birch  " — the  kind  of  stick  that 
makes  you  weep. 

Eating  cares " — troubles  because  you  are 
tired  of  eating. 

Spoiler's  hand " — your  father's  hand  be- 
cause he  spoils  you. 

The  balm  of  childhood  "  — what  makes 
children  stop  there  crying. 


44  English  as  She  is   Taught, 

*'  He  issued  a  papal  bull" — the  news  written 
on  the  board  outside  the  office. 

"I  would  that  my  tongue  could  utter" — 
means  its  to  much  trouble  to  write  out  his 
ideas. 


Tell  me  not  in  mournful  numbers, 
"  Life  is  but  an  empty  dream  !  " 

For  the  soul  is  dead  that  slumbers, 
And  things  are  not  what  they  seem. 
Psalm  of  Life.     Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow. 


The  way  we  pass  a  lifetime  is  to  us  but  as  if 
we  were  asleep  and  we  do  not  remember  all 
that  happens  but  the  happy  moments.  When 
we  are  dead  then  we  see  what  we  have  done  in 
a  different  way. 

-X- 
%    Hi 

Don't  say  life  is  only  an  empty  dream.     If 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  45 

our  souls  stop  living  and  go  to  sleep  it  cannot 
be  so  for  we  would  die.  The  last  thing  we  are 
to  attain  to  I  think  is  the  grave. 

Hi 
Hi    Hi 

Your  the  same  as  dead  when  your  asleep  and 
things  that  are  making  you  pleasant  now  will 
one  day  make  you  sorry. 

Hi 
Hi    Hi 

Do  not  tell  me  that  life  is  a  dream,  because 
when  I  sleep  things  will  not  be  like  I  think  they 
are. 

Hi 
Hi    Hi 

This  means  that  you  know  without  being 
told  in  rymes,  that  life  and  soul  shall  die  away 
and  be  nothing. 

Hi    Hi 

Don't  tell  me  in  sorrowful  verses  life  is  only 


46  English  as  She  is  Taught. 

an  illusion,  the  soul  is  wicked   that   slumbers, 
and  things  are  very  deceitful. 


The  heights  by  great  men  reached  and  kept 

Were  not  attained  by  sudden  flight  ; 
But  they  while  their  companions  slept 
Were  toiling  upwards  in  the  night. 
The  Ladder  of  St.  Augustine.     H.  W.  LoNGFELLOW. 

Great  men  have  not  made  flights  very  sud- 
denly. They  have  slept  with  their  companions 
while  they  were  toiling  to  keep  the  heights 
they  had  attained. 

Hi 

*  * 

The  heights  that  great  men  have  kept  out  of 
reach  were  not  attained  by  means  of  sudden 
flight.  While  their  companions  were  sleeping 
they  were  up  at  all  hours  of  the  toiling  night. 


In  the  lexicon  of  Youth,  which  fate   reserves  for  a  bright 
manhood,  there's  no  such  word  as  Fail. 

Richelieu.     Edward  Bulwer  Lytton. 

In   the  early  days  of  youth  which    destiny 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  47 

waits  for  a  better  chance,  there  is  no  such  word 
as  fail. 

The  lexicon  of  youth  which  is  fated  for  a 
bright  manhood,  should  never  fail. 

The  sentence  means,  in  the  beginning  of 
youth  the  fate  that  is  kept  for  a  bright  manhood 
must  not  be  a  failure. 

There  was  no  such  word  as  fail  when  I  was 
a  boy,  but  now  I  am  a  man. 

If  you  study  while  you  are  young  your 
knowledge  will  be  preserved  and  you  can  not 
fail. 

The  word  fail  never  appears  in  the  natural 


48  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

teachings  of  youth  and  is  kept  for  bright  man- 
hood. 

In  a  youth's  translation  which  is  kept  back 
until  a  riper  age,  there  is  no  such  word  which 
says  fail. 

The  youth  who  is  in  his  lexicon  and  about 
to  spring  into  a  bright  manhood,  the  word  fail 
he  knows  not. 

To  fail  is  impossible  for  youth  in  the  lexicon 
which  is  reserved  for  it. 


Alone,  but  with  unbated  zeal, 
The  horseman  plied  with  scourge  and  steel  ; 
For  jaded  now  and  spent  with  toil, 
Embossed  with  foam  and  dark  with  soil, 
While  every  gasp  with  sobs  he  drew, 
The  laboring  stag  strained  full  in  view. 

The  Lady  of  the  Lake.     SiR  WALTER  ScOTT. 

The  man  who  rode  on  the  horse  performed 
the  whip  and  an  instrument  made  of  steel  alone 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  49 

with  strong  ardor  not  diminishing,  for,  being 
tired  from  the  time  passed  with  hard  labor 
overworked  with  anger  and  ignorant  with 
weariness,  while  every  breath  for  labor  he  drew 
with  cries  full  of  sorrow,  the  young  deer  made 
imperfect  who  worked  hard  filtered  \\\  sight. 


To  him  who  in  the  love  of  nature  holds 
Communion  with  her  visible  forms,  she  speaks 
A  various  language.     For  his  gayer  hours 
She  has  a  smile  and  eloquence  of  beauty, 
And  she  steals  into  his  darker  musings 
With  a  mild  and  gentle  sympathy  that  steals 
Away  their  sharpness  ere  he  is  aware. 

Thanantopsis.     Wm.  Cullen  Bkyant. 

The  man  who  loves  his  nature  he  holds  con- 
nections with  his  form  in  a  visible  manner;  he 
speaks  a  different  language  for  his  lively  hours. 
Nature  has  a  glad  voice  and  smile  and  beauty. 
He  goes  into  his  darker  musings  with  a  mild 
and  healing  sympathy  and  not  with  a  sorrowful 


50  English  as  She  is   Taught. 


feeling  that  steals  away  their  sharpness  before 
he  is  aware  of  it. 

■vr     ^ 

To  him  she  speaks  the  love  of  nature  and  of 
various  languages,  and  she  smiles  with  healing 
sympathy  and  steals  away  his  gayer  hours  and 
eloquence  of  beauty  that  steals  away  their 
sharpness  before  he  knows  of  it. 


Two  angels  guide 
The  path  of  man,  both  aged  and  yet  young, 
As  angels  are,  ripening  through  endless  years. 
On  one  he  leans  :  some  call  her  Memory, 
And  some,  Tradition  ;  and  her  voice  is  sweet 
With  deep  mysterious  accords  :  the  other, 
Floating  above,  holds  down  a  lamp  which  streams 
A  light  divine  and  searching  on  the  earth. 
Compelling  eyes  and  footsteps.      Memory  yields, 
Yet  clings  with  loving  cheek,  and  shines  anew 
Reflecting  all  the  rays  of  that  bright  lamp 
Our  angel  Reason  holds.     We  had  not  walked 
But  for  Tradition  ;  we  walk  evermore 
To  higher  paths,  by  brightening  Reason's  lamp. 

The  Spanish  Gypsy.     George  Eliot. 

Was  it  not  for  Tradition  we  would  not  travel 
this  far.     We  are  still  walking  to  brighter  steps 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  51 

by  shining  our  brains.  What  little  intellect 
we  have,  if  it  was  well  shined,  it  might  do  a 
great  deal. 

Man  is  guided  by  two  spirits,  evil  and  good, 
and  if  the  evil  spirit  (before  he  was  a  good  one) 
had  been  a  good  one,  man  would  not  have  been 
created. 

Man's  path  guides  two  angels.  One  is  old 
and  one  is  young.  Ones  names  Memory  and 
one  is  Tradition.  One  floats  round  and  hunts 
for  things  on  the  earth.  Memory  clings  to 
the  cheek  and  shines  the  lamp  that  Reason 
holds.  Tradition  helps  us  to  walk  and  we 
brighten  up  Reason's  lamp. 

Hi 

Hi    Hi 

Two  great  Powers  or  Forces  guide  men  and 
women  in  this  world  whether  they  be  young  or 


52  English  as  She  is   Taught. 


old,  and  these  powers  are  still  growing  through 
numbers  of  years.   • 


We  lean  on  Mearcy  and  Tradition.  But 
whatere  it  may  be,  the  sound  is  sweet  with 
vast  mysterious  accords.  Then  Power  or 
Mearcy  glares  above  us,  and  there  looks  down 
upon  us  with  extreme  splendor. 

Memory  still  shines  reflecting  that  light  our 
senses  tell  us  of,  or  that  is  within  our  brains,  if 
we  have  any.  And  I  suppose  we  are  all  gifted 
with  a  little. 

Had  an  angel  never  committed  sin,  we  never 
would  have  been  created  and  guarded  by  a 
heavenly  spirit. 


English  as  She  is   Taught. 


SZ 


VII. 


HistoricaL 


{American^ 

Christopher  Columbus  went  to  sea  untill  he 
was  14  years  of  age.  He  dreamed  there  was 
a  place  named  America  and  after  much  ad- 
versity he  finally  discovered  it. 

Christopher  Columbus  was  called  the  Father 
of  his  Country. 

Queen  Isabella  of  Spain  sold  her  watch  and 
chain  and  other  millinery  so  that  Columbus 
could  discover  America. 


54  E?iglish  as  She  is  Taught. 

Columbus  set  sale  in  three  small  ships  called 
Nina,  Pinter  and  Santa  Anna. 

The   first    land    Columbus    discovered    was 
Gibraltar. 

Columbus  was  the  first  white  man  who  dis- 
covered America. 

Columbus  knew  the  earth  was  round  because 
he  balanced  an  ^g'g  on  the  table. 

Columbus  perished  in  sight  of  land. 

The  West  Indians  was  the   first   discovered 
by  Christies  Columbies. 

The  west  Indaines  was  discovered  in  1692  by 
Chrissor  Columbius. 

The    Crusaders     were    the    first    to    settle 
America. 

The   American    colonies     were    settled    by 
Dutch  navegators  who  founded  them. 

The  first  English  settlements  were  made  in 
the  Gulf  of  Mexico. 

Slaves  were  introduced  to  this  country  by 
Spain  and  Portugese  people. 

Kink    Louis   decleared    ware   against    Kink 
William  who  commanded  the  English  Fources. 


English  as  S/ie  is   Taught.  55 

A  party  of  French  and  Indains  came  to  Sketi- 
ney  and  the  Indains  tomahorks  was  frozen.  It 
was  a  very  bobloody  war.  For  Fourty  years 
the  war  was  but  it  did  not  last  longe.  The 
war  ended  in  1776  because  Kink  Phillip  discov- 
ered the  dead.  It  was  called  his  war  because 
he  was  the  cheaf  mouver  of  it. 

Virginia  was  named  from  Queen  Virgin  who 
was  called  Elizabeth. 

The   Indians  were  the  first  Americans  and 
they  settled  over  a  vast  expanse  of  the  county. 
Salem  witch  craft  was  a  son  of  Massasoit. 
The  Indian   wars  were  very  desecrating  to 
the  country. 

The  Indians  pursued  their  warfare  by  hiding 
in  bushes  and  then  scalping  them. 

Captain  John  Smith  has  been  styled  the 
father  of  his  country.  His  life  was  saved  by 
his  daughter  Pochahantas. 

The  Puritans  found  an  insane  asylum  in  the 
wilds  of  America. 

They  were  called  Puritans  because  they  were 
more  quiet  than  the  Episcopalians. 


56  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Miles  Standish  discovered  Plymouth  and  it 
was  named  in  his  honor. 

Roger  Williams  called  the  settlement  Rhode 
Island  in  honor  of  God's  merciful  Providence 
shown  to  him. 

William  Penn  was  born  in  Boston  in  1607. 
He  was  the  first  white  man  who  founded  Penn- 
sylvania. He  founded  Pennsylvania  because 
his  name  was  William  Penn. 

William  Penn  discovered  Philadelphia  and 
laid  out  its  streets. 

The  Stamp  Act  was  to  make  everybody 
stamp  all  materials  so  they  should  be  null  and 
void. 

Benedict  Arnold  was  greatly  regretted  by 
the  Americans  as  well  as  by  the  English. 

Benjamin  Franklin  is  the  finest  Example  of 
a  selfmad  man  that  American  History  affords. 
He  commenced  life  as  a  tallov/  chandelier  boy 
and  step  by  step  became  a   Great   Genius. 

George  Washington  was  born  in  1492. 

At  White  Plains  Gen.  Washington  murdered 
several  hundred  men. 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  57 

Gen.  Washington  is  famous  for  the  Wash- 
ington Monument. 

Washington  wrote  the  Declareation  of  Inde- 
pendence in  1492. 

George  Washington  inherited  consumption 
in  the  army. 

Washington  died  in  Spain  ahmost  broken- 
hearted. His  remains  were  taken  to  the  cathe- 
dral in  Havanna. 

The  Mexican  war  was  the  war  of  Texas  with 
the  United  States. 

Gen.  Scott  fought  bravely  at  the  battle  of 
Wingfield. 

When  the  Wig  party  was  in  power  there 
was  striks  all  over  the  laborers. 

Slavery  was  caused  by  the  admission  of  Mis- 
souri into  the  Union. 

The  Missouri  Compromise  compelled  slaves 
to  enter  all  the  different  states  and  territo- 
ries. 

Gorilla  warfare  was  war  where  men  rode  on 
gorillas. 

The  Border  Ruffians  were  founded  to  prevent 


58  Efiglish  as  She  is   Taught. 

all  emigrants  into  Kansas  and  they  sacrificed 
considerable  lives. 

John  Brown  was  a  very  good  insane  man 
who  tried  to  get  slaves  into  Virginia.  He  cap- 
tured all  the  inhabitants,  but  was  finally  con- 
quered and  condemned  to  his  death. 

The  confederasy  was  formed  by  the  fugitive 
slaves. 

{English.) 

England  was  named  by  the  Angels. 

The  Celts  were  driven  out  of  England  into 
Whales. 

Julius  Caesar  invaded  England  400  years  B. 
C.  The  English  condition  was  in  a  rude  state. 
They  joined  in  games  such  as  cock  fighting. 

The  Brittains  were  the  Saxons  who  en- 
tered England  in  1492  under  Julius  Caesar. 

The  Britains  came  from  Brittany.  They 
were  a  brave  and  warlike  people  and  lived  by 
fishing  and  manufactures. 

The  Britains  conquered  Julius  Caesar  and 
drove  him  ignominiously  from  his  dominions. 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  59 

The  Britons  founded  the  Druids.  They 
ust  to  hold  religious  services  out  of  doors. 

The  Druids  were  supposed  to  be  Roman 
Catholicks. 

The  Crusaders  were  fanatics  who  fought  in 
tournaments. 

The  Habeas  Corpus  Act  said  that  a  body 
whether  alive  or  dead  could  be  produced  in 
court. 

Alfred  the  Great  reigned  872  years.  He 
was  distinguished  for  letting  some  buckwheat 
cakes  burn  and  the  lady  scolded  him. 

Rufus  was  named  William  on  account  of 
his  red  hair.  He  established  the  curfew  fire 
bell. 

William  the  Conqueror  was  the  first  of  the 
Mormons. 

Edward  the  black  Prince  was  famous  for 
founding  chivalry. 

Chivalry  is  a  fight  on  horseback  between  two 
horsemen  in  an  open  plain. 

A  night  errant  is  a  man  who  goes  around  in 
the  night  in  search  of  adventures. 


6o  JEnglish  as  She  is   Taught. 

The  MjddleAges  come  in  between  antiquity 
and  posterity. 

The  War  of  the  Roses  was  between  the 
white  and  the  red. 

Henry  Eight  was  famous  for  being  a  great 
widower  having  lost  several  wives. 

Lady  Jane  Grey  studied  Greek  and  Latin 
and  was  beheaded  after  a  few  days. 

Queen  Mary  married  the  Dolphin. 

Elizabeth  was  called  the  Virgin  queen  be- 
cause of  her  many  accomplishments  and  she 
had  a  great  many  fine  dresses. 

The  unfortunate  Charles  First  was  executed 
and  after  he  was  beheaded  he  held  it  up 
exclaiming  Behold  the  head  of  a  trater! 

Cromwell  was  only  a  parallel  with  Bona- 
parte. 

Queen  Victoria  was  the  4th  son  of  George 
Third  the  Duke  of  Kent. 

John  Bright  is  noted  for  an  incurable  dis- 
ease. 

Lord  James  Gordon  Bennett  instigated  the 
Gordon  Riots. 


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{FrencJi^ 

Joan  of  Arc  lived  in  New  Orleans  where  she 
was  discovered  and  burned  by  the  British. 

Cardinal  Richelieu  was  one  of  the  most 
famous  soldiers  of  France.  He  was  cut  down 
on  St.  Bartholomew's  Day. 

St.  Bartholomew  was  massacred  in  1492. 

The  French  Revolution  was  quite  rapid.  It 
made  some  changes  in  the  government  and 
many  persons  were  slain. 

Bonaparte  gave  away  many  thrones  to  his 
brothers  and  sisters. 

Louis  Napoleon  besieged  all  Paris  who 
elected  him  emperor. 

By  the  Salic  laws  no  woman  or  descendant 
of  a  woman  could  occupy  the  throne. 

Luther  introduced  Christianity  into  England 
a  good  many  thousand  years  ago.  His  birth- 
day was  November  1883.  He  was  once  a 
Pope.  He  lived  at  the  time  of  the  Rebellion 
of  Worms. 


Mnglish  as  She  is   Taught. 


{Roman.) 

The  history  of  Rome  is  wrapped  in  antiquity. 

The  Gauls  were  a  very  brave  people  of  the 
Tapean  Rock. 

Carthage  was  founded  by  Dido  nearly  one 
hundred  years  ago. 

Hannibal  at  the  early  age  of  six  years  was 
raised  to  the  command  of  the  army. 

Spartacus  fought  a  war  of  several  years 
against  the  Romans. 

Cataline  was  defeated  and  slain  by  his  entire 
army. 

Pompey  gave  the  Romans  a  splendid  cam- 
paign. 

Trajan  was  persecuted  by  the  Christians. 

The  seven  hills  of  Rome  were  the  Capitoline, 
Palitine,  Alpine,  and  I  cannot  remember  those 
I  have  not  written  down. 

The  Colliseum  was  erected  on  the  top  of  an 
inaccessible  hill  somewhere  about  the  time  of 
Nero.  When  it  was  burning  down  he  played 
a  tune  on  his  violin. 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  63 


In  his  military  character  Julius  Caesar  prob- 
ably never  surpassed  any  other  hero. 

Cesar  succeeded  in  wresting  the  crown  from 
Mark  Anthony. 

Julius  Caesar  was  quite  a  military  man  on  the 
whole. 

Julius  Caesar  is  noted  for  his  famous  telegrarr 
despatch  I  came  I  saw  I  conquered. 

When  Julius  Caesar  crossed  the  Hellispont  it 
was  the  turning  point  in  his  carear. 

The  Crusaders  were  conquered  by  Julius 
Caesar. 

Julius  Caesar  was  really  a  very  great  man. 
He  was  a  very  great  soldier  and  wrote  a  book 
for  beginners  in  the  Latin. 

Cleopatra  was  caused  by  the  death  of  an  asp 
which  she  dissolved  in  a  wine  cup. 

The  reign  of  Augustus  took  place  in  the 
Christian  era.  He  caused  it  to  be  introduced 
into  the  kingdom. 

The  emperor  Vespasian  destroyed  his  son 
Titus  after  a  tremendous  siege  of  six 
months. 


64  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Domitian  was  so  cruel  that  he  was  noted  for 
his  killing  flies. 

The  Roman  priests  were  chosen  by  the  gods 
and  some  by  a  special  diety. 

The  toga  was  a  robe  that  flowed  over  the 
body  very  neat  and  graceful. 

The  Forum  transacted  the  principal  business 
of  Rome. 

The  Gordian  knot  was  a  very  hard  knot 
which  Nero  tied  and  by  it  he  kept  the  Roman 
empire  in  subjection. 

When  a  Gladiator  was  killed  he  held  up  his 
finger  and  if  the  spectators  wanted  him  to  live 
they  held  up  their  thumbs. 

{Grecian^ 

Greece  is  a  country  noted  for  its  handsome 
people.     They  are  all  sculptures. 

Greece  is  divided  into  periods. 

The  only  form  of  government  in  Greece  was 
a  limited  monkey. 

Egypt  and  Rome  were  the  principal  divisions 
of  Greece. 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  65 

The  inhabitants  of  Greece  lived  in  huts,  eat- 
ing the  skins  of  wild  beasts  and  dressing  them- 
selves in  berries  and  acorns. 

Helen  was  the  daughter  of  Troy  a  very  beau- 
tiful woman  and  wrote  the  Illiad  giving  a  long 
account  of  it. 

Lycurgus  was  a  legislature.  He  abolished 
commerce  and  dress. 

Lycurgus  was  so  strict  he  turned  all  the 
women  into  men  they  were  bold  and  corage- 
ous. 

Athens  was  the  capital  of  Africa  and  the  arts 
flourished. 

Darius  attacked  both  sea  and  land. 

The  introduction  of  Asia  made  the  Greeks 
have  great  manners  and  wealth. 

The  Persian  war  lasted  about  500  years. 

Socrates  was  no  use  at  fighting.  He  de- 
stroyed some  statues  and  had  to  drink  sham- 
rock.    Socrates  was  a  great  ridiculer. 

The  Lacons  talked  Laconic. 

Philip  when  ten  years  old  was  sent  as  a  hos- 
tess to  Thebes. 


66  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Greece  had  only  y  wise  Men. 

Alexander  surpassed  all  others  in  his  rapidity 
extent  and  splendor.  He  was  a  model  exam- 
ple to  the  career  of  others. 

Ruins  are  almost  always  very  historical  for 
they  show  how  much  money  the  inhabitants 
must  have  spent  on  them.  Ruins  often  give 
us  the  dates  of  their  erection  and  are  very  use- 
ful in  fixing  the  date  of  some  event. 


English  as  She  is   Taught 


67 


VIII. 

Intellectual. 

{American.) 

Lowell,  Taylor  and  Irving  stand  foremost 
among  the  literature  of  the  day. 

James  Russell  Lowell,  Henry  Longfellow, 
Whittier  and  Horthorn  have  all  written  pieces 
of  some  note. 

Bryant  while  still  a  child  wrote  thanatopsis 
and  then  became  editor  of  a  paper  and  lived 
for  many  years  after. 

A  sort  of  sadness  kind  of  shone  in  Bryant's 
poems. 


68  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

The  Brasebrig  Hall  and  of  the  Spy  was  also 
written  by  Bryant. 

Washington  Irving  was  a  great  poet  and 
prose. 

Bracebridge  Hall  was  written  by  Henry 
Irving. 

Washington  Irving  is  noted  for  his  sketch 
pieces.     He  also  wrote  the  lives  of  men. 

Cooper's  writings  belong  to  that  class  of 
literature  called  bell  lettres. 

Snow  Bound  was  written  by  Peter  Cooper. 

R.  Waldo  Emerson  which  is  good  for  solid 
everyday  use  in  extracting  mottoes. 

Emerson  was  first  a  minister  but  as  he 
couldn't  agree  he  decided  to  become  a  poetical 
and  essay  writer. 

Longfellow  confined  himself  to  poetry. 

Longfellow  wrote  the  ''  Reck  of  the  Hes- 
perus"  and  "Outer  Mare." 

Longfellow  has  indeed  told  the  tale  of 
Evangeline  fully  well. 

H.  Wadsworth  Longfellow  is  the  most  prom- 
inent writer  in  North  America.     Heawather  is 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  69 


one  of  his  principle  poems  a  indian  tale.  Long- 
fellow's poetry  is  characterized  by  universalism. 

J.  Greenleaf  Whittier  whose  poetry  proves 
that  he  was  a  man  into  or  upon  whom  the 
beauties  of  nature  never  passed  unnoticed. 

Whittier  is  the  author  of  the  famous  sonnet, 
''Sonnet  on  my  Blindness"  and  the  "Marble 
Form." 

Whittier  wrote  Tam  O  Shantaabouta  Witch 
in  Salem. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  writeings  are  inclined 
to  humerous. 

Holmes  is  a  very  profligate  and  amusing 
writer. 

Hawthorn  has  written  a  quite  large  selection 
of  stories. 

The  Scarlit  litter  and  the  Spie  was  wTitten 
by  Hawthorne. 

The  House  of  the  Seven  Gables  was  written 
by  Lord  Bryant. 

In  the  house  of  Seven  Gables  it  is  the  story 
of  seven  devils  who  lived  in  the  house.  A 
house  situated  in  Massachusetts, 


7©  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Hauthorn  wrote  the  Dear  Slyer. 

Cotton  Mather  was  a  writer  who  invented 
the  cotton  gin  and  wrote  histories. 

Mrs.  Southworth's  works  are  among  those 
classed  among  the  Sentimental  and  are  very 
much  admired  by  people  of  that  class. 

Joseph  Rodman  Drake  his  principal  work  is 
lines  to  my  mother's  picture. 

Edgar  A.  Poe  was  a  very  curdling  writer. 

Marmion  was  written  by  Poe. 

Rev.   E.  P.  Roe  writes  religiously. 
.   Webster  is  noted  for  his  getting  up  the  dic- 
tionary.    He  also  wrote  other  things   besides 
this. 

Mrs.  Beecher  Stow  wrote  a  very  natural  and 
symathetic  uncle  Tom's  cabin. 

The  author  of  uncle  Tom  gives  good  discrip- 
tions  of  the  people  and  places  with  whom  she 
is  dealing. 

Dread  is  a  story  of  the  disimal  swamp. 

Samuel  Johnson  an  American  writer.  His 
writing  is  proved  and  accepted,  being  excitin|; 
and  mcretorious. 


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Wordsworth  was  an  American  writer  whose 
works  are  such  as  will  ever  be  admired. 

Locke  De  Foe  and  Gibbons  were  all  Ameri- 
can novalists  and  I  have  forgotten  their  works. 

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Beowulf  wrote  the  Scriptures. 

Cadmus  wrote  pierce  ploughman. 

Adam  Bede  a  prominent  writer  of  his  time 
-^or  he  threw  his  soul  and  body  into  his 
"vritings. 

King  Alfred  wrote  translations  from  the 
Bible  and  it  is  regarded  as  a  very  fine  produc- 
tion yes  one  of  the  finest  of  the  period. 

Ben  Jonson  survived  Shakespeare  in  some 
respects. 

Fox  wrote  a  very  good  book  of  Marters. 

Ben  Jonson  was  a  Shakesperian  Dramalist. 
He  was  a  very  rare  writer  as  one  of  his  friends 
declared. 

Spenser's  Fairy  queen  shows  the  trials  of 
a  Night  and  the  triumphs  of  a  Vertue. 

Chaucer  was  the  father  of  English  pottery. 


72  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Chauserwas  a  bland  verse  writer  of  the  third 
century. 

Geoffrey  Chaucer  was  a  great  young  boy. 
His  farther  was  lether  seller.  As  time  passed 
on  he  was  an  extraordinary  writer  of  his  time. 

Geffrey  Chaucer  fix  the  date  of  his  birth  at 
1340  suppose  to  belong  to  the  high  class  of 
people  from  his  sir  name  Chausier  French  he 
was  armed  a  knight  only  very  respectfull  people 
could  be  armed  knights. 

Chaucer  began  his  writings  during  the  reign 
of  Queen  Anne  and  they  are  deserving  of 
merit  being  the  first  of  her  reign. 

Chaucer  was  an  English  poet  who  instructed 
Queen  Elizabeth  and  she  mourned  greatly  for 
him  when  he  died.  His  principal  Work  was 
concerning  the  inhabitants  of  Bath. 

When  Chaucer  was  2 1  years  of  old  he  engaged 
in  war.  He  fought  valliantly  and  was  unharmed. 
He  also  wrote  a  great  many  other  works  on 
Fowl. 

Chaucer  displays  his  fame  which  shall  always 
be    distinguished    from     time    immemoriable. 


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His  satyrical  stanzas  are  deep  and  show  that 
we  have  found  a  man  of  value.  The  Canter- 
bury Tales  are  undertaken  by  several  journey- 
men. The  Jolly  Man  was  the  amusement  for 
the  multitude.  We  had  32  going  on  the 
journey  but  each  had  no  time  to  Tell  a  Tale, 
so  they  did  not  tell  tales. 

King  Arthur  was  to  flourish  as  magnificence 
in  Canterbury  Tails. 

Peter  Simple  was  one  of  the  Canterbury 
Tales. 

In  the  Canterbury  Tale  it  gave  account  of 
king  Alfred  on  his  way  to  the  shrine  of  Thomas 
Bucket. 

The  Canterbury  Tales  are  24  volums.  It 
concists  or  happens  in  an  In  in  Canterberry 
and  the  people  which  is  not  uncustomary. 

In  the  Canterbury  Tales  the  Night  of  Fex- 
tivity  arrives  and  each  contributes  by  singeing 
or  resitation.  He  is  Inspired  by  angels  who 
bids  him  sing  of  the  origan  of  Man. 

Now  Chaucer  must  have  been  a  very  keen 
intelligent  man  to  thus  class  various  characters 


74  jEfigHsh  as  She  ts   Taught. 

and  put  them  in  their  right  place  as  to  have 
harmony.     His  mind  was  always  planning. 

Chaucer  we  find  him  gazing  at  his  empty 
purse  and  apostrophizing  it  in  despare  and  in 
terms  that  show  his  abject  poverty. 

Samson  Augusta  was  one  of  Chaucer's  princi- 
pal works  as  it  contained  his  life  giving  a  full 
account  of  it.  He  also  wrote  something  about 
Paradise. 

Chaucer  was  succeeded  by  H.  Wads.  Long- 
fellow an  American  Writer.  His  writings  were 
chiefly  prose  and  nearly  one  hundred  years 
elapsed. 

Shakespere  is  an  English  author  who  is 
uncomputed. 

Shakespeare  was  a  fiction  and  allegorical 
writer.  His  father  married  a  lady  of  means 
but  they  became  greatly  reserved  in  circum- 
stances. His  most  intimate  friend  was  Ben 
Butler  who  was  also  a  great  fiction  writer. 

Shakespears  translated  the  Scriptures  and  it 
was  called  St.  James  because  he  did  it. 

Shakespere   wrote   Mackbeth,    Orthello  and 


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Merchant  of  Vennice,  it  is  a  wealtiiy  Jew  and 
Arabella  has  many  suters. 

Hamlet  one  of  Shakespeares  best  Tragedies 
in  which  Romeo  and  Juliet  are  the  principal 
characters.     It  is  a  didactic  poem. 

Hamlet  set  to  the  stage  by  so  many  eminant 
artists  bears  strongly  the  character  and  mind 
of  the  writer.  It  has  been  judged  not  much 
over  much  and  still  holds  the  palm. 

In  the  play  of  Hamlet  Shakespere  tries  to 
show  how  brewing  over  trouble  makes  people 
insane. 

In  Hamlet  the  king  gave  a  gladitorial  com- 
bat in  which  Hamlet  and  Laertes  is  to  take 
part.     They  all  lie  dead  in  the  arena. 

The  soliloquies  of  Hamlet  throughout  the 
play  are  notorious. 

Hamlet  is  very  famous  for  the  piece  he  used 
to  speak  about  to  be  or  not  to  be. 

The  play  of  Julius  Caesar  consists  of  five 
acts  each  act  being  a  Sene.  He  being  the 
center  around  which  all  the  rest  are  concerned 
is  the  main  character. 


76  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

King  Lear  is  a  play  where  King  Lear  has 
three  daughters  and  is  very  ungrateful. 

The  merchant  of  Venice  is  old  Shylock  who 
lives  in  Venice. 

Macbeth  was  terrified  by  the  ghost  of  Ban- 
croft. 

Amanda  was  the  heroine  of  the  Tempest. 

Shakespeare's  sonnits  are  on  my  blindness 
and  ode  to  Imortallity. 

Frances  Bacon  was  born  in  England  and  was 
a  chemist,  being  of  a  very  experimenting  sort 
of  nature.     He  was  a  friar  or  Monk. 

Bacon  wrote  many  things  in  defense  of  phi- 
losophy and  was  received  by  the  people.  He 
also  wrote  a  great  many  histories  of  all  the 
countries. 

Some  of  the  folks  say  that  Lord  Bacon  wrote 
a  good  many  of  Shakespeare's  plays  for  him. 

Francis  Bacon  wrote  under  the  name  of 
Ovum  Organum. 

John  Milton  was  a  great  of  the  Elizabethan 
age.  He  Graduated  from  Colledge  and  devoted 
himself    to    literary   persuits.      His   principal 


English  as  She  is   Taught.  77 

works  are  Paridise  lost  and  regained  this  poem 
is  very  great  when  we  consider  the  circum- 
stances which  it  was  written  under  having  been 
born  bHnd  he  translated  it  to  his  daughter  and 
after  all  that  it  was  sold  for  5  lbs. 

Milton  was  called  the  blind  poet  and  justly 
so  as  he  was  born  blind.  His  brain  wor1<ed 
and  worked  until  it  gave  to  the  world  a  master- 
pece  of  poetry  in  Paridise  Lost.  It  is  his 
greatest  effort  though  he  is  the  author  of 
several  others. 

John  Milton's  parents  paid  great  attention 
to  his  litarary  talents.  John  was  a  mere  boy 
when  his  parents  noticed  him  displaying  great 
genius  and  love  for  writting  and  they  then  set 
to  work  to  have  this  spirit  advanced. 

John  Milton's  parents  could  not  send  his  son 
to  school  so  long  as  he  desired  to.  So  he  was 
sent  to  work  at  a  early  age  to  procure  a  means 
of  livelihood,  he  was  willing  to  do  almost 
every  thing  to  get  along,  so  as  to  take  part  in 
some  literary  pursuit.  So  providence  favored 
his  attempts. 


78  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Milton's  father  was  a  Pureitan  but  still 
wished  to  give  his  son  a  good  education.  He 
spent  a  few  years  with  a  privit  tutor  and  then 
went  to  reside  in  his  father's  palace  where  he 
studied  music  and  mathematics. 

Milton  showed  great  aptitude  for  love  of 
learning,  so  that  his  education  was  carefully 
looked  into.  He  was  very  popular  with  the 
puritan  party  because  he  was  such  a  very 
puritan. 

Milton  had  a  very  intellectual  mind. 

The  early  part  of  Milton's  life  was  uphill 
work.  He  rose  in  favor  towards  the  central 
part. 

John  Milton  was  always  poor.  He  never 
became  rich.  He  had  a  great  many  trials  and 
suffering  and  povety. 

Milton  formed  a  type  of  the  Puritan  ascen- 
dency. 

John  Milton  wrote  translations  and  very  sub- 
lime writings. 

Milton  is  divided  into  three  periods.  L'Al- 
legro  was  a  novel  written  by  him  the  greatest 


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of  English  novelists  since  Shakespeare.  Ill 
Penserose  was  written  by  him. 

Three  times  Milton  gave  his  hand  and  was 
united  in  matrimony. 

Milton's  married  life  was  not  happy.  He 
married  three  wives  in  succession. 

Milton's  wife  would  not  live  with  him.  His 
life  was  to  strict  for  her.  At  last  thinking  that 
he  ment  to  get  a  Divorce  as  he  was  writeing 
on  that  subject  she  returned  to  him. 

Milton  wrote  ''  Miltons  Paradise  "  lost  and 
^'  Paradise  "  regained  in  which  Satan  is  repre- 
sent as  rebelling  against  our  Saviour  just  as 
sinners  and  those  who  have  sinned  but  have 
been  converted. 

Milton's  principal  work  is  the  exclusion  of 
the  bad  angels  out  of  heaven. 

Paradise  lost  begins  rather  low  at  first,  but 
ends  in  one  great  climax. 

John  Bunyan  lived  a  life  of  scantity. 

The  principal  works  of  John  Dryden  was 
Lives  of  the  poets,  belonging  to  Literature. 

Addison  is  the  author  of  child  Harold. 


8o  English  as  She  is   Taught. 


Sam  Johnson  was  so  queer  in  his  writings 
that  he  was  always  called  Johnsonese. 

Fielding  his  works  have  been  regarded  with 
great  success. 

Richardson  had  the  honor  of  standing  among 
the  first  of  his  time. 

Sterne  may  be  regarded  as  a  formost  writer 
of  great  praise. 

Smollett  is  a  writer  of  great  renown  to  some 
but  others  have  never  considered  his  genius. 

Peter  the  simple  was  written  by  Hume  so 
as  to  describe  a  man  who  was  not  very 
bright. 

By  DeFoe's  genius  he  managed  to  get  hold 
of  the  necessities  of  life  and  so  managed  to 
live. 

John  Locke  was  a  wTiter  of  England  who 
wrote  very  extremely  on   Political  Economy. 

John  Locke's  works  were  ministerial. 

John  Locke's  writings  are  sarcastic  and 
cold.     He  wrote  a  white  Devil  essay. 

John  Locke  was  not  of  a  poetical  turn  of 
mind. 


English  as  She  is   Taught. 


John  Locke's  works  are  full  of  energy  and 
lack  no  little  want  of  thought. 

Alexander  Pope  is  an  English  Novalist  and 
deserving  of  special  praise  when  we  consider 
his  misfortunes  in  bodily  ailments.  No  other 
is  so  instructive  as  Pope's  essay  on  man  it 
shows  deep  knowledge  of  man   caracter. 

Alexander  Pope  the  worthy  successor  to 
dryden  to  the  Throne  of  Poesy.  He  was  sick 
by  deformed  in  body. 

Pope's  life  was  quite  bitter.  He  had  a 
great  deal  of  sarcasm  and  wrote  a  very  fine 
essay  upon  Man.  This  was  considered  his 
master  stroke. 

Pope  was  deformed  in  many  ways  so  much 
so  that  his  mother  was  to  be  his  servant  at 
any  moment  he  spoke.  His  writenings  are 
famous  for  the  lucid  arrangement  of  matters 
and  for  much  genius. 

Pope  writes  a  poem  about  a  maid  of  honor 
has  beautiful  hair  cut  off  and  let  to  fly  in  the 
wind  for  which  poem  he  is  reproved  and  he 
tries  to  correct  its  falts. 


82  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Pope  wrote  Dunciade  in  which  the  thrown 
of  the  dunces  is  given  to  his  litterary  enimes. 
He  wrote  the  Guardeen. 

Pope  belonged  to  the  lake  school  and  later 
on  his  writtings  were  free  from  the  bitter  sat- 
tire  which  shown  out  of  his  later  works. 

Pope's  masterpiece  was  essay  on  man  in 
which  he  wrote  his  ideas.  The  quotations  I 
do  not  think  can  be  improved  upon. 

In  the  Rape  of  the  Locke  there  is  a  Story- 
depicted  in  it. 

Jonathan  Swift  belonged  to  the  English 
Church  but  was  not  much  of  a  ornament  from 
a  religious  point  of  view. 

Jonathan  Swift  belonged  to  what  is  called 
the  lake  school  of  Poetry. 

Swift  wrote  a  Ulogy  on  His  own  death  a 
touching  poem  is  his  lines  to  Stellar  on  her 
death. 

Swift  wrote  the  tale  of  a  tub  between  Cath- 
olics and  Protestants. 

Swift  wrote  the  famous  poem  of  Twistam 
Shanty. 


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Jonathan  Swift's  mind  was  from  far  away 
back  tainted  with  insanity. 

Swift  wrote  GuUifer's  travels  which  was 
discription  of  what  he  was  supposed  to 
see  on  a  journey  which  he  was  supposed  he 
took. 

Oliver  Goldsmith's  Histories  are  not  very 
good  but  his  other  works  are  classed  among 
the  1st. 

Burns  chief  poem  was  called  *' Tamoschanta." 

Tam  OShanter  is  a  sort  of  a  ghost  story  told 
by  an  old  man.  A  superstitious  something 
that  people  believed  in  those  days. 

Cowper  had  a  melchomcally  or  sad  disposi- 
tion but  wrote  feeling  lines. 

Child  Harold  is  Cowper's  most  famous  work. 
This  was  the  only  novel  he  ever  wrote  not 
being  much  of  a  novel  writer.  Robinson  Cru- 
so  was  William  Cowper. 

Wm.  Wordsworth  wrote  the  Barefoot  Boy 
and  Imitations  on  Immortality. 

Gibbon  wrote  a  History  of  His  travels  in 
Italy.     This  was  original. 


84  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Lord  Byron  was  a  great  novelist.  He  also 
wrote  a  few  poems. 

Lord  Byron  was  the  son  of  an  heiress  and  a 
drunken  man. 

Coleridge  has  caused  them  m-uch  joy  and 
pleasure  as  he  has  written  a  large  number  of 
charming  and  illustrated  works. 

Thomas  Hood  wrote  the  Song  of  the  Shirt 
a  very  laughable  and  prety  writing :  About  a 
lady  riding. 

Sir  Walter  Scott  was  the  greatest  poet  Scot- 
land ever  produced  his  principal  work  was  ye 
banks  and  brays  he  also  wrote  a  poem  entitled 
Ivan  Hoe. 

Sir  Walter  Scott  ranked  equal  with  any  in 
point  of  genius  as  they  did  in  popularity. 

Scott's  great^powers  of  discription  and  makes 
his  works  appear  as  if  they  happened  all  over 
again.  Marmion  is  one  example  where  the 
rattling  of  the  chains  and  so  on  are  brought 
back  to  us  again. 

Marmion  is  a  neatly  written  tale. 

Marmion  was  a  beautiful  maiden  who  had 


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many  trials  and  afflictions.  It  is  filled  with 
illusions  to  Nature. 

Marmion  was  a  story  of  country  life  des- 
cribed Marmion  as  a  riding  forth  to  gain  glory. 

Kenilworth  is  a  story  nicely  delivered  of 
the  literature  of  the  day. 

Scott  was  the  author  of  Watts  on  the  Mind. 

Scott  was  great  in  prose,  poetry  and  mis- 
fortune. 

Macauleys  was  a  great  poet  having  been 
educated  in  a  village  he  then  became  an  editor 
of  an  evening  paper  and  among  his  best  works 
are  the  clock  on  the  Stairs.  Macauleys  and 
Wittier  are  compared  because  both  labored  for 
the  good  of  mankind. 

Lord  Macauley  was  born  in  London  at  a 
time  when  there  was  the  greatest  need  to  Eng- 
land of  a  good  historian. 

Thomas  B.  Macauley's  was  a  man  of  stern 
but  gentle  parents.  He  had  every  amusement 
that  parents  could  bestow  on  a  child. 

Thomas  Babbington  Makorley  graduated  at 
Harvard  and  then  studied  law,  he  was  raised 


86  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

to  the  peerage  as  Baron  in  1557  and  died   in 
1776. 

Macauley  wrote  Comeration  Odes  to  a  gre- 
cianearn  under  the  willow. 

Thomas  B.  Macauley  was  the  author  of 
Pilgrims  Progress. 

Maclauley's  writings  are  all  essays.  He  has 
loose  and  peodic  sentences  nicely  arranged. 
He  is  very  carefull  always  to  perfect  harmony. 

Macauley's  writings  are  noted  for  brilliant 
thought  but  not  for  very  much  accuracy.  His 
works  received  a  large  sale. 

It  is  a  question  is  not  Macauly  sometimes 
to  oratorical. 

George  Eliot  is  quite  an  authoress. 

George  Elliot  is  a  writer  of  some  worth. 

Geo.  Elliott  is  the  best  lady  Novalist  in 
English. 

George  Eliot  left  a  wife  and  children  who 
mourned  greatly  for  his  genius. 

George  Eliot  gained  renown  by  her  work  on 
Jane  Ayre. 

George  Eliott  Miss  Mary  Evans  Mrs.  Cross 


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Mrs.  Lewis  was  the  greatest  female  poet  unless 
George  Sands  is  made  an  exception  of. 

Dickens  is  a  great  novelist  he  makes  us  fall 
in  with  his  caracters. 

Dickens  is  one  of  the  Greatest  American 
Novilist. 

Dickens  is  noted  for  his  multiplicity  in  tell- 
ing stories. 

Dickens  is  a  very  smart  man  and  a  portrait 
of  character. 

Dickens  gives  an  incite  into  human  life. 

Dickens  is  the  most  human  writer  Old 
Curiosity  Shop  was  written  by  David  Copper- 
field. 

Bulwell  is  considered  a  good  writer. 

Lord  Lytton  former  Bulwer  placed  himself 
at  the  head  of  English  poets. 

Thackeray's  genius  is  original. 

Thacerey  is  a  Great  Genius.  He  gives  us  the 
fashionable  life. 

Mrs.  Browning  wrote  sonnets  to  the  Pottery 
Geese. 


88  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

Mrs.  Brownings  Song  of  the  Shirt  is  in 
ahiiost  every  reader. 

Tennyson  is  a  very  populus  poet. 

The  greatest  writers  of  the  present  day  are 
Lord  Beconsfield  w^ho  wrote  the  ^'  History  of 
Cyprus  "  and  Miss  Braddon  who  wrote  ''  Pev- 
erel  of  the  Peak." 

Sir  Walter  Scott  Charles  Bronte  Alfred  the 
Great  and  Johnson  were  the  first  great  Novel- 
ists. 

The  most  important  event  in  the  life  of 
Horace  was  his  birth  in  45. 

The  Iliad  is  called  an  Epic  poem  because  it 
was  first  written  in  the  Epic  dialect. 

Homer's  writings  are  Homer's  Essays  Virgil 
the  Aneid  and  paradise  lost  some  people  say 
that  these  poems  were  not  written  by  Homer 
but  by  another  man  of  the  same  name. 

Sanscrit  is  not  used  as  much  as  it  used 
to  be  as  it  went  out  of  use  1500  B.  C. 


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IX. 

Philosophical. 


The  name  of  the  great  philosopher  of  modern 
times  was  called  Eurekia. 

The  principle  of  Diogenes  was  that  he  could 
move  the  world  if  he  could  find  a  place  big 
enough  to  stand  in. 

Franklin  proved  that  electricity  and  ligl-et- 
ning  are  rods. 

Temperature  is  measured  b}-  a  machine 
called  a  hydrometer. 

Sun  melts  ice  by  the  law  of  cohesion  of 
atoms. 


90  English  as  She  is   Taught. 

An  inclined  plane  is  a  plane  that  inclines. 

Drops  of  water  are  generally  spherical  for 
various  reasons  known  only  to  the  gracious 
Providence  who  has  formed  them. 

Afifinity  is  a  liking  evinced  between  two 
objects,  contact  not  being  necessary.  One 
person  may  have  an  affinity  or  liking  for  an- 
other. 

Capillary  attraction  is  the  attraction  between 
hair.  A  person's  hair  is  affected  by  fright.  The 
hair  of  some  animals  is  attracted  by  lightning. 

A  body  will  go  just  as  far  in  the  first  second 
as  the  body  will  go  plus  the  force  the  gravity 
and  that's  equal  to  twice  what  the  body  will  go. 

Specific  gravity  is  the  weight  to  be  com- 
pared weight  of  an  equal  volume  of  or  that 
that  is  the  weight  of  the  body  compared 
with  the  weight  of  and  equal  volume. 

Inertia  is  that  proberty  of  bodies  by  virtue 
of  which  it  cannot  change  its  own  condition  of 
rest  or  motion.  In  other  words  it  is  the  nega- 
tive quality  of  passiveness  either  in  recovera- 
ble latency  or  insipient  latescence. 


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The  air  pump  is  an  instrument  used  for 
forcing  water  into  a  pump  and  expelling  it  by 
means  of  a  vacuum.  It  ascends  in  the  water 
downwards. 

The  law  of  fluid  pressure  divide  the  different 
forms  of  organized  bodies  by  the  form  of  at- 
traction and  the  number  increased  will  be  the 
form. 

By  convection  the  body  is  heated  instan- 
taneous, as  gunpowder. 

The  reason  a  body  falls  when  not  supported 
is  that  there  is  not  enough  air  under  it  to  keep 
it  up  and  so  it  has  to  fall  or  the  specific 
gravity  is  not  great  enough  to  hold  it  up. 

The  difference  between  latent  and  sensible 
heat  is  that  it  feels  sensible. 

If  you  listen  closely  you  can  vibrate  a  pitch- 
fork. 

If  an  experiment  be  successful  the  result 
will  be  inevitable. 

Thermal  unit  is  the  heat  required  to  raise  a 
pound  of  water  through  one  foot. 

If  we  were  on  a   railroad  track  and  a  train 


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was  coming  the  train  would  deafen  our  ears  so 
that  we  couldn't  see  to  get  off  the  track. 

Tides  are  caused  by  the  reflection  of  the 
sun  and  moon  upon  the  water. 

Sir  Isaac  Newton  founded  the  '^  Laws  of 
Gravity." 

A  simple  pendulum  is  an  imaginary  point 
hung  on  a  thread. 

The  vibrations  of  a  pendulum  is  determined 
by  the  time  they  take. 

A  noise  is  a  collection  of  sounds  which 
means  nothing  but  a  clatter. 

Sound  is  that  form  or  motion  of  the  mind 
which  effects  the  oratory  nerves. 

A  sound  is  not  like  a  noise  because  it  has 
essential  things  to  depend  upon  and  a  noise 
has  not. 

To  get  gold  from  its  ore  it  is  polished  and 
heated. 

Metals  are  changed  in  their  elements  by  fuss- 
ing them  together. 


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X. 


Physiological. 


Physillogigy  is  to  study  about  your  bones 
stummick  and  vertebry. 

Disease  is  any  affection  of  any  organ  of  the 
body. 

Disease  is  more  common  to  some  people  than 
to  others. 

Disease  is  sickness  caused  by  the  introduc- 
tion of  some  foreign  generally  insect  substance 
as  cholera. 

When  )'ou  have  a  illness  it  makes  your  health 
bad  as  well  as  having  a  disease. 


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All  mechanical  work  is  injurious  to  the 
health. 

If  a  sawyer  does  not  wear  spectacles  he  will 
be  sure  to  lose  his  sight. 

Occupations  which  are  injurious  to  health 
are  carbolic  acid  gas  which  is  impure  blood. 

A  stone  mason's  work  is  injurious  because 
when  he  is  chipping  he  breathes  in  all  the  little 
chips  and  then  they  are  taken  into  the 
lungs. 

A  bootmaker's  trade  is  very  injurious  because 
the  bootmakers  always  press  the  boot  against 
tlie  thorax  and  therefore  it  presses  the  thorax 
in  and  it  touches  the  heart  and  if  they  do  not 
die  they  are  cripples  for  life. 

The  body  is  mostly  composed  of  water  and 
about  one  half  is  avaricious  tissue. 

The  body  has  an  infinite  number  of  bones 
joined  together  by  the  joints. 

The  spine  is  quite  an  important  bone. 

The  spinal  column  is  made  of  bones  running 
all  over  the  body. 

We  have  an  upper  and  a  lower  skin.     The 


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lower  skin  moves  all  the  time  and  the  upper 
skin  moves  when  we  do. 

The  upper  skin  is  called  eppederby  and  the 
lower  skin  is  called  derby. 

We  should  never  eat  because  the  food  does 
not  digest. 

Digestion  belongs  to  the  lower  animals. 

Digestion  is  the  circulation  of  the  blood. 

Digestion  is  reducing  our  food  to  plump. 

Digestion  is  when  food  is  taken  into  the 
stomach. 

The  digestive  fluids  are  the  nerves  muscles 
and  bones. 

The  organs  of  digestion  are  the  stomach 
liver  spleen  and  utensils. 

The  stomach  is  a  small  pear-shaped  bone 
situated  in  the  body. 

After  swallowing  the  food  undergoes  masti- 
fication. 

The  gastric  juice  keeps  the  bones  from 
creaking. 

The  gastric  juice  digests  the  stomach. 

There  are  three  salivary  glands.     The  lacte 


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als  in  the  intestines.  The  lymphatic  in  the 
stomach.  They  change  starch  to  grape  sugar 
in  the  mouth. 

Eating  rapidly  the  food  does  not  give  the 
saliva  time  to  get  into  the  mouth. 

The  salivary  glands  are  used  to  salivate  the 
body. 

Perspiration  is  caused  by  the  culinary 
glands. 

The  chyle  flows  up  the  middle  of  the  back- 
bone and  reaches  the  heart  where  it  meets  the 
oxygen  and  is  purified. 

The  thoraic  duct  leads  from  the  exterior  ear 
to  the  drum. 

The  thoraic  duct  is  a  tube  in  the  back  of  the 
neck. 

When  food  is  swallowed  it  passes  through  the 
windpipe  and  stops  at  the  right  side  and  some 
of  it  goes  to  make  blood. 

In  the  stomach  starch  is  changed  to  cane- 
sugar  and  cane-sugar  to  sugar-cane. 

We  all  have  a  very  important  elementary 
cannal. 


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The  heart  is  a  comical  shaped  bag. 

The  function  of  the  heart  is  between  the 
lungs. 

The  heart  is  suspended  from  the  fifth  pair  of 
ribs. 

The  heart  manufactures  the  blood  and  the 
liver  keeps  it  going. 

Whenever  the  heart  is  emptied  by  the  action 
of  the  lungs  it  causes  disease. 

When  the  heart  beats  it  stirs  up  the  blood 
and  that  digests  the  food. 

The  work  of  the  heart  is  to  repair  the  differ- 
ent organs  in  about  half  a  minute. 

The  nerve  centers  are  the  cartilages  of  the 
nerves. 

The  optic  nerve  is  the  principal  nerve  used 
in  digestion. 

The  optic  nerve  is  the  nerve  located  at  the 
base  of  the  brain. 

The  olfactory  nerve  enters  the  cavity  of  the 
orbit  and  is  developed  into  the  special  sense  of 
hearing. 

Nerves  always  give  us  the  toothache. 


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Neuralgia  is  caused  by  nerves  trying  to  pierce 
the  bones. 

The  bones  need  constant  oiling.  This  oil  is 
called  cartilege  and  runs  from  all  the  glands  in 
the  body. 

The  eyes  are  set  in  two  sockets  in  a  bone 
which  turns  up  at  the  end  and  then  becomes 
the  nose. 

When  the  blood  circulates  in  the  brain  it  is 
called  intermittent. 

The  blood  flows  through  the  alimentery 
canal  into  the  abdominal  canopy. 

The  blood  is  putrefied  in  the  lungs  by  in- 
spired air. 

The  blood  corpusels  interfere  with  the  liver 
and  prevents  circulation. 

The  three  coverings  of  the  brain  are  the 
diameter,  the  perimeter  and  the  trachea. 

When  the  intestines  become  congealed  they 
are  followed  by  instant  death. 

Albumen  is  a  classification  of  articles  of  food. 

Albumen  is  a  whity  substance  existing  in  the 
white  of  an  ^^'g  to  a  great  extent. 


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Alcoholic  beverages  greatly  obstruct  the 
breaking  down  of  the  body. 

The  heart  lungs  and  blood  is  very  dangerous. 

The  cow  has  a  pulse  as  well  as  anybody  else. 

The  cow  has  a  pulse  but  you  can  not  feel  it 
at  his  wrist. 

A  cow  has  no  pulse  but  the  higher  animals 
sometimes  do. 

All  animals  that  have  feet  are  called  quad- 
rupeds. 

The  molars  arc  the  teeth  that  grow  outside 
the  head. 

The  growth  of  a  tooth  begins  in  the  back  of 
the  mouth  and  extends  to  the  stomach. 

We  are  vacksinated  for  the  smallpox  and 
verylord. 

Fat  is  found  in  the  creases  of  the  body. 

An  anatomical  figure  is  to  illustrate  diseases 
of  the  skin. 


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Astronomical. 


A  Sidereal  day  is  the  time  from  the  sun  leav- 
ing the  sky  till  he  appears  again. 

The  farther  the  sun  is  up  the  longer  it  takes 
it  to  set  and  the  days  are  longer  in  summer  than 
when  the  sun  is  low  down. 

The  weight  of  the  earth  is  found  by  compar- 
ing a  mass  of  known  lead  with  that  of  a  mass 
of  unknown  lead. 

To  find  the  weight  of  the  earth  take  the 
length  of  a  degree  on  a  meridian  and  multiply 
by  62^2  pounds. 


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The  size  of  the  earth  is  found  by  finding  the 
horizontal  parallax  of  the  sun. 

Abberation  is  if  we  saw  a  star  and  shot  at  it, 
the  shot  would  not  pass  through  the  center  but 
through  the  side. 

The  moon  is  240  miles  from  the  earth. 

The  moon's  nodes  are  the  corners  of  the 
moon's  orbit. 

The  reason  for  believing  that  there  are  moun- 
tains on  the  moon  is  due  to  the  shadows  re- 
flected on  the  earth. 

The  libration  of  the  moon  show  the  north, 
east,  south,  and  west  sides  of  the  heavens. 

The  motions  of  the  moon  are  found  by 
watching  the  sun  spots. 

There  can  be  an  eclipse  of  the  moon  when 
the  sun  gets  into  the  moon's  shadow. 

Juniper  is  a  very  bright  star. 

Venus,  Jupiter  and  perhaps  the  earth  was 
known  to  the  ancients. 

Mars  moves  in  his  orbit  at  the  rate  of  sixteen 
seconds  a  mile. 

The  earth  is  1492  miles  in  circumference. 


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The  spheres  are  to  each  other  as  the  squares 
of  their  homologous  sides. 

EcHpses  are  caused  whenever  the  obscuration 
of  a  body  is  passed  by  the  shadow  of  some 
other  body. 

The  planets  shine  with  a  steady  light  but 
the  stars  sprinkle. 

The  stars  would  cover  up  the  whole  heavens 
if  they  were  all  spread  out  so  astronomers  have 
concluded  to  arrange  them  in  constellations. 


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XII. 

Political. 

♦^is  a) 

The  world  would  be  in  a  state  of  cosmos  if 
it  had  no  system  of  government. 

Congress  is  divided  into  civilized  half  civil- 
ized and  savage. 

The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  was 
established  to  ensure  domestic  hostility. 

The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  is  that 
part  of  the  book  at  the  end  which  nobody 
reads. 

The  first  Conscientious  Congress  met  in  Phil- 
adelphia. 


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A  bill  becomes  a  law  when  the  President 
vetos  it. 

The  three  departments  in  the  general  govern- 
ment are  the  White  House,  Custom  House  and 
United  Treasury. 

The  three  departments  of  the  government  is 
the  President  rules  the  world,  the  governor 
rules  the  state,  the  mayor  rules  the  city. 

There  are  two  political  divisions  in  the 
United  States  the  democrats  and  republican. 

The  number  of  Senaters  from  each  State  is 
determined  by  the  number  of  votes. 

The  Articles  of  Confederation  were  made  by 
the  Confederates  and  the  Constitution  by  all 
the  people. 


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XIII. 


Musical, 


Musical  sounds  differ  because  some  are  nicer 
than  others. 

Pitch  is  the  length  of  the  key  board  of  a 
orgin. 

An  interval  in  music  is  the  distance  on  the 
key  board  from  one  piano  to  the  next. 

The  value  of  a  whole  note  depends  on  where 
it  comes. 

A  hole  note  requires  three  beats. 

A  Rest  means  you  are  not  to  sing  it. 

We  always  sing  five  lines  and  four  spaces. 

A  dotted  note  holds  on  longer. 


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XIV. 

Oratorical. 

Elocution  is  opening  the  mouth  wide  open. 

It  is  a  very  important  thing  to  breathe. 

We  should  always  breathe  with  the  muselsof 
the  diagram  unless  we  have  catarr  or  a  cold  in 
the  head. 

Vigorous  breathing  gives  you  wind  in  the 
lungs. 

Strong  breathing  prevents  bilious  deficien- 
cies. 

By  breathing  any  slight  adhesion  of  the  lungs 
is  torn  awa}'. 

Good  breathing  prevents  contagious  diseases 
from  settling  in  the  systum. 


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Breathing  is  very  good  for  reading  for  when 
you  are  reading  you  carnt  breathe  at  all  and  so 
it  is  good  to  breath  a  good  deal  before. 

Articulation  is  caused  by  resperation. 

Distinct  articulation  can  not  be  made  unless 
we  have  a  tongue  our  lips  and  our  teeth. 

Vowel  sounds  are  made  b}' keeping  the  mouth 
wide  open  and  consonant  sounds  by  keeping  it 
shut. 

The  Asperate  quality  of  voice  is  when  )'ou 
try  to  say  something  in  a  whisper. 

Force  is  more  loudness  sometimes  than  oth- 
ers. 

Emphasis  is  putting  more  distress  on  one 
word  than  another. 

Inflection  is  when  the  voice  goes  up  and  then 
comes  down  again  it  is  a  period. 

A  retorical  pause  is  when  you  have  to  take 
breath. 

Stammering  is  caused  by  some  detriment  in 
the  speech. 

Physical  exercise  makes  the  vocal  muscles 
operate  stronger. 


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XV. 


Metaphysical. 


The  study  of  Mental  Philosophy  teaches  us 
that  we  are  all  sensible  beings. 

The  imagination  is  that  part  of  the  mind 
which  looks  forward  to  that  which  it  does  not 
lay  its  visible  eye  on. 

An  energy  is  perfected  when  it  is  tanta- 
mount. 

The  Canons  of  Induction  were  invented  by 
Sir  Humphrey  Davy. 

Hamilton  made  a  long  and  exhausting  analy- 
sis of  sense  perception. 


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Reid  considered  externality  to  be  something 
hard. 

The  theory  that  intuitive  truths  are  discov- 
ered by  the  light  of  nature  originated  from  St. 
John's  interpretation  of  a  passage  in  the  Gospel 
of  Plato. 

Man's  moral  life  first  originated  in  his  per. 
ception  of  the  world  of  Nature. 

Herodetus  tells  us  that  the  Egyptians  were 
the  first  men  who  had  immortal  souls. 


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